Sway

I see fireflies
in mirrors of starlight;
blue moon reflections
dancing

through windblown hair;

the hum of evening
cascading over river’s edge

and when it rains,
disrupting silence,
catapulting sky tears
upon oak and maple,

limbs reach
for a figleaf promise
waiting for calm

and the golden sound
of silence.

~

Upward Spiral

 

We are only one constellation
  in the scheme of things,
     swirling ~ ~ ~
amongst one another

                 shifting – – – – –
            like eyes of a poet
       with a new metaphor


      There is no simplicity
             in our make-up;
            no uncertainty
    in the eye of a storm
                
just the flow of breeze;

       atoms and molecules
                 within breaths
             of delicate matter.


   You see, love
          is undefinable,
               inexplicable, illogical
          in a mass of red

   infinite as our souls;
        emotion on a mission
                    to change the world.
                                                    
       
You must be able to see
    beyond the boundaries “they” place on us
             beneath the factual;
the things unseen
        to see the light,

                  to see the light!


                        Look past the petals and stems,
           leaves and fragrance
                    to find the heart of a flower

    and in that garden,
          my darlings,

            my darlings,

      never let them crush your spirit.