In the moment there is only dust and din and thoughts of glory we dig our hands into our stage a bedroom hall a kitchen drink a commuting car rings the Retiarius roams encircles encroaches ensnares the other entangled in the words casting weighted nets impaling with a trident thrice past present futures told stabbed…
Creation
Out of time, there were Two only One and One and blue but a bucket of liquid indigo two paddlers moving in a row boat and oar a compass held where do we go, the One yelled? and on the horizon they pointed without purpose and disappointed they moved and mapped turning in a circle…
Fireflyghts
Mix the black and nyght with fireflyghts starwrite the sky with light glowings tumbledrum paint an awening bright hum and dance a bumble-blueing. Fireflyght, light-swish song switch it on electrick imagiknation wonder where wires whirly-hook dirk a dragenlight darken shun raven’s eyes circle neon looks. ∞ Poem drafted and submitted as part of my…
I Stand
I stand beneath the cables that fasten me to this dust moving in eddies spread my tired arms to touch willing my fingers, arches and whori, my white flecked nails to grasp the infinity of a memory of a moment when I wound the handle of tin box to a tune that played like baseball…
Babe
“Babe” George Herman Ruth Listen now ’cause this is the “truth” Into lake Ontario he crushed his first pro dinger In a way, Canada can claim this notorious swinger. ∞ Submitted as part of “National Poetry Writing Month – 2017” (#NaPoWriMo2017). Today’s prompt: Because it’s Friday, let’s keep it light and silly today, with a…
Rise Once Again
Birth bountiful beauty – rise once again lift death from desiccated innocence Purple pastel petals – rise once again peel perfect light, a luminescent life Poems in passion ink – rise once again love letters crumpled in a perfume box Wish I might, pray I will – rise once again release whispered blessings into blue…
Luminescence Sent
Colours pool in solitude – painted – brushes weather washes away – watery – reflections swallowing whole swatches – summer – swirls autumn awe solemn bare – cracking – crumbling diving down a mermaid den – sultan’s – glen rouge rapt on smitten cheeks – reeds – rise a peacock peeks – revenant – revivalent…
Maman
Captured in a nightmare’s night four by four, legs and arms, entwined preying on and praying for an end a cul-de-sac an empty sack steel away your marble eggs midnight bliss births a poison kiss. Spin your web, Mother may i, may i not. Captured in an imagination box tourists take and travelers see a…
nine times nine
my path is strung upon misted air its bridge I follow across divide my eyes are welded white with a stare caught in the blue of your memory its an apparition of nowhere reflected on a current of green our visions moving lines out of square fingers clutch against the flowing tide a strip of…
Black and White
A plane tree peels black and white A hole in the morning eclipse black and white A photographer shutters contrasts black and white A cavalry knight seizes black and white A bird upon the ice frozen black and white Melanin under skin pigments black and white A gown held by a tux dances black and…