I can’t think of a better medicine than stars for a ceiling.
– Yellowstone
::
Now I lay me down
(to sleep)
my fears
my tears
the tired
trappings of my heart.
A quieting restart,
this midnight sky.
My wayward soul to keep,
counting
(blessings)
clouds as sheep.
Standing still,
I wish upon the fallen.
Twinkle
twinkle
nightlight peace.
::
Sarah’s got a great Quadrille word for us over at dVerse this week. Come play!
when the tree falls
(in the forest)
for the sky
do you and i hear
it, across all these miles?
i know not
of timbre falling
,
but the stars are full of static
electricity and the moon is all crescent
cling and zing.
::
I’ve been gleefully out of Dodge this week, so late to the Quadrille.
Mish had some fun for us on Monday.
,
and we’re out there standing on the beach
and my toes know sand is fairy dust,
and I trust my heart to this evening breeze
and she’s teasing me with this closed paren
-thesis of gold and so i’ve gone
and told the earth i love her once again.
but see,
she’s a tricky one
(this earth, this moon).
just when i think her murmur’d shine enough,
she disappears too soon.
::
I’ve just come from a couple nights in Lake Tahoe with my Love. This is prompted by Poetic Asides.
(in the key of clack)
::
we’ve left our black
smudges on the pages
of each other’s hearts.
we’ve flirted,
we’ve fallen.
we’ve phrased.
we’re right here last callin’
glasses raised for one more
round, glass syllables clinked
and
jackets donned.
and now as we soldier on
(as these letters, these words, these lines),
we say not goodbye,
but write on.
::
With thanks to all poets and generous commenters for another awesome April.
Because in April, we poem. And on May 1, we rest.
you have been living
with my ghost.
the rest of me is gone,
wisp’d way by grief.
all that’s left here
are remnants
hanging in the air
,
words not said
old smoke rings
and other barely there things.
::
In April, we poem.
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart:
when you sing in your whisky voice
when the world is mud-
luscious, the little
bird by snow and stir by still
when the world is puddle-wonderful
he sang his didn’t he danced his did.
since feeling is first,
in every language even deafanddumb
,
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy
and what i want to know is
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
far
and
wee
Fleeter be they than dappled dreams
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
sky lavender and cornerless, the
children guessed(but only a few
are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds
all by all and deep by deep
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
but
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
when by now and tree by leaf
paler be they than daunting death
And death i think is no parenthesis
running from marbles and
piracies and it’s
riding the echo down
for life’s not a paragraph
while Spring is in the world
and
anyone lived in a pretty how town
(sleep wake hope and then)they
laugh, leaning back in my arms
how do you like your blue-eyed boy
Mister Death
she laughed his joy she cried his grief
sun moon stars rain
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
will never wholly kiss you;
(though love be a day
and life be nothing,it shall not stop kissing).
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
how children are apt to forget to remember
how much said she
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
.
::
This was a time-consuming BLAST. It’s a Cento, cobbled solely from poems by E.E. Cummings.
For day 30 for NaPoWriMo.
We stop
against our better judgement,
even though we’ve barely got
a dime between us and we shoulda
used it for laundry because your last
t-shirt is starting to smell like that
rest stop two towns back.
The black
black pavement just keeps on
moving and that dot-to-dot line is a
golden ellipses to the next thing but
we don’t know what that is and so
maybe we should just keep cranking
up the Stones and keep on rolling.
But we’re
on E, see? And it doesn’t stand for
everything or anything, really, except
that everything’s a mess and even
with a full tank I’d be empty
of common sense and still endlessly
edging myself into eventual eclipse.
And maybe
here’s where I get out. Get off this
crazy ride and hide and find myself
again right here in the middle of…
Kansas? Nebraska? Where are we?
So maybe not. Not quite yet. But
it’s fuel for thought.
::
In April, we poem.
a faithful family. a good map jaunt.
her dad’s green eyes. her mama’s smile.
the firmest of foundations.
a fair shake, a good start.
but
sometimes she carries her gifts like burdens,
small curse words on curious tongue:
fingers that crave ink,
and a two-sizes-too-big heart.
::
Day 29 for NaPoWriMo.
We commit them to
memory, wear them as articles
of faith, don them like habits.
Sky. Sea. Tree. Wild. Breeze.
We take the ones that move us
and groove them into our skin.
We close our eyes and paint our fingers cobalt,
emerald, saffron. Count stars by memory.
Braille freckles into poems.
::
In April, we poem.
Whimsygizmo's Blog 