Reassured with Memories

We reassure each other by recalling shared memories.

Wild Caught

 I boarded lone and unadorned

The moistened air as heat

Subsided under the boat's canvas

Visiting with Al the captain

As bait I sat awaiting

Any who were taking

This trip into the Peace River

Four others in a named group

Ladies friendly and varied

Boarded and into the harbor

We pushed quickly out and

Under bridges loaded with cars

With conversations out and back

These wild caught friends of mine 

And I were back

Lunching together as friends forever

I opted not to take their names

A catch and release event I claimed

As many as fish in the sea

I'll not foul the new connections

Simply say goodbye and

Defy conventions.

-Kelly Voelker

convention - a way in which something is usually done, especially within a particular area or activity.

Time to Detach

 As nightfall came into bed I slipped

My shadow stepped into my inner cathedral

Announcing it wanted an audience to quibble

Why didn't I say what I really meant?

Why didn't I go where I wish I had went?

It gave me examples for next time around

I dismissed it at some point taking flight into sleep

I awakened more slowly than normal it seemed

Slowly recovering I walked through the house

Sitting in my lanai I could see squirrels and sunshine

Surrounded by doves gently cooing away

I said "Oh how beautiful it is this new day!"

I will wait and do nothing, just watch it unfold

Waiting with patience in my safe nest

Progress will happen, now it's time to detach.

Kelly Voelker

Selective Gatekeeper

As I lay in bed

I fantasized about honesty

What if I could give feedback

True and concise

Ending the offerings

Which missed more than hit

My sensitive feelers

Both defensive and hid

Waiting for meaning or

Connections of fate

Revealing the purpose

This new phase creates.

-Kelly Voelker

No Egos

I sought out warm pools

To warm my bones

To sooth away tension

Amid geezers and crones

I shed preconceptions

I welcomed the greetings

Of how are ya's and hi's

I floated and dreamed

While the others conversed

Surrounded by calmness

No egos were nursed

-Kelly Voelker

Welcome

In a moment I could see

What was all a lie

Had been telling me

To fear that which was true

That which was true 

Said nothing except

Welcome me and

Introduce itself. 

-Kelly Voelker

Daybreak Potential

As new as the sun

Early at dawn

My native amazement in

Self satisfied style

Filled me with daybreak 

Potential and smiles

Freshly suspending 

This moment in time

To savor the flavor and

Rejoice a while!

-Kelly Voelker

Anywhere West Painting series

 Anywhere West Series

by Kelly Voelker

Oil Paintings with Beeswax Medium on Paper

9" x 12" paper shipped in 12" x 16" floating glass frame*

To PURCHASE,  email me at kellywriteaway@gmail.com.  Venmo and cash accepted.

This summer I'm at the Windmill Market.  Windmill Market, at the Old Pilger Rest Stop near Pilger, Nebraska, on hwy 275.

2024:  June 29, July 27, August 31, September 28

.                                                                             #1 Anywhere West.   July 2023   SOLD 

#2 Anywhere West July 2023    $125

                                                      

#3 Anywhere West July 2023  $125

#4 Bio Vitale  SOLD
1 Print available $27

#5 Grassland $125  SOLD
1 Print available $27

#6 Change $125

#7 Spirit of Sage SOLD

#8 Anywhere West One  SOLD

#9 Anywhere West 2
Framed in Barn Wood $155

#10 Wetland $125

#11 Sand Landscape $125

#12 Coyote Not for Sale
Prints available $27

To purchase,contact me at kellywriteaway@gmail.com

*All paintings ship in floating glass frame.  

Strangers and Roommates

We are coupled for life

Strangers and roommates alike

My physical body and me

Mysteries to each other

Unable to see

Unable to know

The depths of each other

Learning of new things

Surprises and wonder

We will never understand or imply

We will never agree which of us really is "I".

-Kelly Voelker

The Delta

Always traveling winding round

Faster, slower, success bound

Long is the river of the prime voyage

I'm at the delta of revision

I've brought myself with my sediment

Like the bottom of a wine bottle

All that's left after a rich life savored

To a large and endless horizon 

A large body of water, new to me

With no obvious current or direction 

I cannot go back up against the stream

So I sit here in the delta

Letting the muddied waters settle.

-Kelly Voelker