Tag Archives: aubades

Aubade with Broken Fingers

Posted on March 9, 2018 by whimsygizmo

She’s doing some aching again, greeting the day with open hands and a moaning heart, starting a song on this sky piano with knuckles lost to greater fights. She’s right at the center of that rising sun, mourning loss … Continue reading →

Posted in poetic asides poems | Tagged aubades, moon, Poetic Asides | 3 Comments

aubade wrapped in tomorrow’s skin

Posted on February 20, 2018 by whimsygizmo

.. before the sun stretches hot and bold, we hold one last gaze at the nothingness of fickle fallen stars. .. twiglet #64.

Posted in aubades, twiglets | Tagged aubades, before dawn, twiglets | 2 Comments

Perhaps She is the Thumbprint of Some Wayward Queen

Posted on January 31, 2018 by whimsygizmo

.. You say to talk about her in a new way and I must tell you I am exhausted. She exhausts me. My nouns. My verbs. My inky veins. I have quilled her a thou -sand poems in paper sky, … Continue reading →

Posted in moon poems | Tagged aubades, dot and dash, glow, hide and seek, ivory ellipses, moon poems, moon stones, mooning away, mooooon, motif, Poets United, sea, sky tag, tag | 15 Comments

Aubade for the A.M.

Posted on June 19, 2017 by whimsygizmo

… Morning breaches too soon, and the moon bids us farewell. That tangerine swell from the east says night has fallen to the other side, pried its dark hands from this horizon. We sway north, question our own salt, and … Continue reading →

Posted in dVerse poems, moon poems, Quadrille | Tagged aubades, dVerse, moon stones, pepper, Q44, Quadrille, salt and pepper | 18 Comments

morning night light

Posted on May 3, 2017 by whimsygizmo

(an aubade tanka) .. one last stolen kiss. watch that fading sky; oh, see? silver filament looped to invisible strings, moon rewires herself to sea. .. prompted by poetic asides.

Posted in aubades, moon poems, poetic asides poems | Tagged aubades, filament, invisible strings, moon, morning, reconnection, sea, stolen kisses, tanka | 2 Comments

A Confusion of Crows

Posted on April 4, 2017 by whimsygizmo

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. – Closing Time, by Semisonic .. We talk a dark string from twilight to dawn, one last strand holding onto nothing and everything. And they (they three) just sit there … Continue reading →

Posted in poetic asides poems | Tagged April PAD 2017, aubades, counting crows, ellipsis, song lyric poems, storytelling of crows | 1 Comment

aubade with a broken bloom

Posted on April 3, 2017 by whimsygizmo

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) – E.E. Cummings .. april … Continue reading →

Posted in aubades | Tagged aubades, barren branches, broken blooms, climate change, early bloom late frost, Garden with Toads, roots, sky songs, Toads, weather | 12 Comments

Renovating Dawn

Posted on March 22, 2017 by whimsygizmo

(an aubade) .. There weren’t quite enough clouds to stir up that crimson purple rose blush sort of sky cauldron, and the tangerine shine of rising yolk sun was acceptable, at best. Cue more birdsong. Cut the traffic din. Maybe … Continue reading →

Posted in aubades, poetic asides poems | Tagged aubades, morning songs, Poetic Asides prompts | 2 Comments

birdsong

Posted on March 21, 2017 by whimsygizmo

.. long my waiting into morning hope, a hum of blossomed breeze ..

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American haiku, aubades, blossomed breeze, hope, hum, morning songs, prompted by the sun, tiny poems, tiny stories in poem pockets, unprompted | 1 Comment

Specter Moon

Posted on February 14, 2017 by whimsygizmo

(an Aubade) .. Dawn breaks us open, unspoken and changed, rearranged. We say our goodbyes, our last gull cries, our vast pulled tides and ardent waves. Sun rises; moon falls, a balance like breathing. She’s nothing but a ghost … Continue reading →