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Tag Archives: moon stones
Pouring hope from tea leaves
, we wish upon whatever we can scrounge: these shattered stars, the kitefluff of a drunken dandelion sun and one last candle’s kiss. It tastes like copper -penny fountains and a stolen horseshoe score, a broken silver skystone all aquiver … Continue reading
Posted in moon poems, Quadrille
Tagged candles, copper pennies, horseshoes, luck, make a wish, moon poems, moon stones, Q44, Quadrille, quiver, sky songs, skystone, stars, wishes
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Dry Spell
The moon’s got a river of promise running through her milky skin, a vein of waning soul. I’ve got a fallen-scar wish that says she’s willing to die for that ocean. And really, aren’t we all just bodies of water … Continue reading
Posted in moon poems, poetic asides poems, twiglets
Tagged bodies of water, bone moon, moon poems, moon stones, ocean, Poetic Asides, river
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and the moon slips by, in silence
she’s focused on her own un -doing, the waning of her wiles, the extinction of her ink. she thinks the world is flat, forgotten. rotten with unstirred souls. she’s sure of nothing. she’ll salt you clean with ocean sway, the … Continue reading
Posted in moon poems, Quadrille
Tagged moon poems, moon stones, ocean sway, Q44, Quadrille
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Sky Calling
.. The stars are sharp tonight, tongues of fire that freeze and float …………..and fall, and we wish they would un-Braille ….us, sing these syllables in a language we might hear and …………..know. The moon? ……..She’s just a golden-throated swallow … Continue reading
Posted in moon poems, Quadrille
Tagged moon poems, moon stones, Q44, Quadrille Monday, star gazing, voices
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By strange and varying degrees
Tempt us not, for we are waiting for the hot hot breath of dragon summer breeze, the way the trees can sway a soul. The balmy blame of sea. Thread us not through flotsam fleet nor pirate plea for … Continue reading
Posted in dVerse poems
Tagged degrees, flotsam, here there be pirates, moon stones, temperature, temptation
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In Answer to a Startled Sun
We rise, apprised of nothing. We sip sink thirst think, and sigh at clouds. We carve our secret names out loud on caves and canvas, steep our skin in freckled fret. Then that big hope-balloon-moon breaches the horizon, reminding … Continue reading
Posted in moon poems, Quadrille
Tagged freckle poems, freckles, moon poems, moon stones, Q44, Quadrille Monday
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hang a left when you get to the moon
she’ll show you the way to wane, to whim the hands of time to darker sides. go straight for the stars, dot-to-dot math a path to that horizon haze, and hold the day loosely in pin-pricked points. sway right at … Continue reading
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Tagged #aprpad, #inaprilwepoem, moon, moon poems, moon stones, stars, sun
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scribbling on the moon
.. we’ve borrowed Orion’s belt -sander, Icarus’ wax and wane, the silver-tipped nibs of these immediate stars. it’s quite a stretch, this lunar etch-a-sketch , but we hope you’ll read it, …………soon. .. In April, we poem.
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged #aprpad, #inaprilwepoem, April PAD 2019, etch a sketch, Icarus, moon poems, moon stones, Orion, orion's belt, scribbling on the moon, tiny poems
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poker-faced moon
.. she’s got an ace up her sleeve, i can tell. she’s cast her spell upon this dark-spade sky, bluffed just enough to call us double-down-drowning in ebony, ivory-cloud, club-snubbed us the wrong way with glow. but I’m calling this … Continue reading
Posted in Quadrille
Tagged aces wild, hearts, moon poems, moon stones, poker, poker face, Q44, Quadrille, spades
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