As an apple tree Or a young stag Is my lover. Finest and loveliest; Warrior and king. In the night I sought him On my bed I longed for him Until my desire roused me to walk the city But I found him not. In the watches of the night…
The ash had fallen round about the mountain and she waits Her remnants covered fields of green with black and dusty night. After her eruption came a quiet death, a state Of cold and distant solitude and some quaked at the sight. But come the morning light, the fire Has…
Fair mistress of the skies, demurely, Oh how she hides her face from those Who want no more than light, and truly, A sweet release from dark. She goes So thoughtless to the bereaved children Of the light, and will not hear them, She hides away in bitter gray, Too…
The winter comes on lazy wings and brings us frost and cold, While autumn beat retreat with care, grown brown, and bent and old. Though winter likes to come each year with laugh as cold as ice, It chuckled softly in this year in repentance of all vice. But maybe…
I came at last to journey's end. I bled out words with deeper pain Than ever I conceived of. Then They asked still more of me again; I look to freedom 'round the bend. I bled out words of deeper pain And I denied no mark of…
Blue were the skies, realize, when disguised As the rise of your grace to a happier place. Stand in the face of the past. It won't last. And tell those who ask, that you've come to be none. postscript For day 30 of --the Vers Beaucoup.…
When all around me begs of my eyes To see not what I used to see But gaze instead with eyes wide awake Seeing all, but blind to daily lies. Etched on graveyard walls with widowed cries And upside down on church steps. We Remember gardening without snakes But now…
I find such comfort in the way you see Into the future, past and present now, Here all at once, and still you let me be As if you trust my strength. I will allow That when I turned to you I made a vow To give you all I…