Poet Blood. By Sara Minges

Blood poets will

bet it all,

every last nickel,

damn it all to hell,

for one last poem

to feel alive, one last time

like an addict needing 

one last hit.

Blood full of whisky dreams

pulsing to the drum

of the road less taken.  

They will wait for that poem

like a lusty love affair

they can’t quite let go of.

Somewhere between 

Bourbon Street

and Café du Monde, 

they’ll sit, drinking a mug

of chickory, waiting.

They know better of course.  

Sara Minges is a 2019 Pitch Best Poet of KC Nominee, Founder of Wonder Woman Rising, peer mentor, coach and motivational speaker living in Overland Park, KS.  She is the author of Naked Toes (Chameleon Press, 2019), and her work has also appeared in Prompts! An Anthology (39 West Press, 2016), Hessler Street Fair 50th Edition (Writing Knights Press, 2019) and Angel’s Share (Shine Runner Press, 2019).  She’s been a featured poet at Blue Monday (2015, Kansas City, MO); Swordfish Tom’s Speakeasy (Kansas City, MO); 3 Wishes (Merriam, KS); Poets & Pints (Minneapolis, MN); Mac’s Back Books, CLE Urban Winery, Visible Voices, and Glass City Roasters (Cleveland and Toledo, OH); In One Ear (Chicago, IL), The Porch (Nashville, TN) and Crescent Moon (Lincoln, NE).