dVerse/A Cloud of Ash Drifts Over Bali II -- 2017 Chapbook Challenge November: Day 30 Back in the Day

A Cloud of Ash Drifts Over Bali  II

The weather report predicts

A dry and warm winter

Each day the sun rises

Each day there is no change

The trees are bare

The grasses golden

Slipping toward brown

Winter white brings transformation

Sun everyday does not a winter make

I wonder am I stranded in another land

Or is this the new normal

A warm winter seems to be without event

Report just in

Volcano erupts

Flights cancelled

Thick cloud of ash drifts over Bali

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Back in The Day

Back in the day

A beach bum of sorts

My gear strapped to my back

The sun hot on my skin

Scan the beach

A sand crab hurries home

Waves come ashore

Rearrange shells at water’s edge

End of day

Wave goodbye to the gulls

Trudge down the beach

Return to the waiting boat

November  30, 2017

Poets United Midweek Motif/We Traveled Far To Gather The Bittersweet

We Traveled Far To Gather The Bittersweet

we journeyed far          to gather the bittersweet            prized for its orange berries     

marked the season        highlighted the table                 an autumn tradition

patchwork of blue        when i think of you                  your return so sweet

a bittersweet time         it was the spring of the year      a time of butterflies 

    

and honeysuckle          i lowered the blinds                 adjusted the light in your room

i remained by your bed    watched the monitors           your heartbeat steady 

you slept peacefully      you held my hand                    tight in yours’s

the time was short        yet the hours crept by slowly            i was helpless

you disappeared           in the early morning                 the chamber empty

i wanted to scream       i wanted to run                         instead/ paid the cabby

caught the flight           laid over in denver                   returned home

November 30, 2017