Evening Song/dVerse

Evening Song

You tell me to lean in close

You whisper in my ear

A cold wind blows

The day is sunny

Unlike the mo(u)rning which is grey

Or the evening grey-song

The notes you play

Are different shades of grey

Just after sunset

Of glorious color

Wrapped in red

The color of your blood

We harmonize our voices

Sing together the last notes

I hold you close

Yet you are gone

February 27, 2018

Fire Can Burn Underground/dVerse

Fire Can  Burn Underground

Suddenly, fire on the horizon

Flames leap above the treetops

As the trees explode

Fire  can go under ground

Linger there for years

To reappear somewhere else

It is the same with loss

The feelings can go underground

And years later

Reappear somewhere else

February 17, 2018

A PROMISE THAT SPRING IS ON THE WAY/ The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #340/ Poets United Poets Pantry

A PROMISE THAT SPRING IS ON THE WAY

Birds in the air and in my hair

Up close and personal

They whisper to me

With their honey coated songs

Birds would fly higher

If it were not for gravity

I do wonder…

How they sit on wires and are not electrified

The blood of your life

Covers the path I walk

The edges hard

My teeth on edge

You bare yourself to me

I am startled

You shake your rattles

It is the crescendo of the day

I wait for the Mexican blue bird’s passing

On that day in April

He will fill each sage brush on the mesa

A promise that spring is on the way

February 25, 2018