Twilight Lullabies

twilight sky
lullabies 
stir the space 
between dusk and night 

Dear January

Dear January, you have been doing this every year. And you look great. The beginning always looks great. You have only come to make this year look better.

the calendar 
in January's chill
spring blossoms

Dear January, speak poetry and embrace me with your eloquence. Make spring bloom luminescent ...make what is empty, dark....effervescent. let nectar flow from lips of flowers and let butterflies carry their fragrant dreams into mountains,  hills,  brooks ,streams, oceans and high seas spreading over earth..

Speak to me
Oh January
Tell the moon to twirl me silver, sun ignite my fire..let the stars wrap their light. .my eyes sparkle the constellations..

Wounded fingers quiver
Broken whispers of fear 
Let the wind be a balm 
To heal the sighs 
Of disease frightened people.

Winter Ache

winter ache;
writing just for myself 
I dress my page in blue 
I write a poem on my heart 

She Was Him, He Was Her

Poetry Partners # 29

She was him
He was her
They were one
They were free
She had eyes that knew
His heart’s glow
A smile that filled the space
When spring made its way to their eyes
In the zephyr’s abracadabra
All the places they were at a loss for words
They were cinder sparked by a flame that grew
Fed by warmth
Touch of a look
Running like blood in their veins
He had the wisdom of a young ink
Unstolen by time
Knowledge eternal
On eternity’s edge
Searching for a lost song
Their gently heaving breath finds the pulse of possibilities

A golden shovel poem by ben Alexander of ‘The Skeptic’s Kaddish’

(in blank verse)

Temperature past the versing point, they
melted into glowing lava and were 
blown with force through revelation's cinder
cone, as thick, boiling comprehension sparked
in their luminous core. Only then, by
quirk of fate or set destiny, did a
zephyr flow from their lips, fanning the flame
stolen for mortals from Olympus that
birthed human knowledge and steadily grew
across the face of Earth, as people fed 
it with aspirations unstolen by
time. As one, they filled the space with soft warmth,
spring smiles, and the teasing, caressing touch
of their eternal words, the lost song of
which they two composed together in a
volume of abracadabras, its look
fraying and worn, with lines of script running
across its pages; letters slanted like
sloping volcanos and inked with goat blood.
Freely, crafting word worlds and timelines in
sync with one another's pulses and their
truth, they felt eternity in their veins.

https://skepticskaddish.com/2022/01/02/she-was-him-or-he-was-her/

In Memory

i die a little everyday 
every breath I take
i miss the people i have lost 

Twenty Twenty-Two

inside the pages 
of my calendar 
a new year opens:
the same old news

Goodbye Notes

goodbye notes;
all the words 
that were left unsaid 

Arely goes herbs

Once there  lived a man named Arely
Who grew himself  a pot belly 
He sowed wild oats in his stomach pot 
Which thrived  into a flowery Plot 
His tummy became  flora fauna friendly  

They called him a tarzan heritage 
The tourists came to see his advantage 
Hé became a walking jungle 
The herbivores came to mingle 
Gobbled him up as herbage .

Autumnal

Green turns to amber
As marmalade sky cascades 
A roseate blaze
Flaming, lambent Hunter’s moon:
The rise and fall of the tides. 


#Tanka 

Sunny ~ Side Up

Dappled grey 
Night sky’s fading hues 
Jasper flares
Warblers spin 
Blooms quaver the morning trail 
Life drifts… warm and still 

My dawn song
Begins at first blush 
When dew melts 
On gauze wings
Golden warmth of dayspring fills 
To liven my frame.


#  shadorma