Capricious Nature
Poetry contest- Kaleidoscope of Emotional Suffering
Sponsored by- Sara Jama
Capricious Nature
In three parts
I
The Night
Queen,
retires
slowly-
as if the earth
pauses
on its axis-
ordering
the world
to stay quiet,
until,
it is
good
and ready.
At last,
morning
bursts in,
like a promise
fulfilled,
falling like bright
lemon slices
through horizontal
blinds…
Doves,
perch high
on telephone wires,
COO
coo- cooing.
Dogs,
hunch
over gravel,
New Mexico’s grass-
each consecrating
a new day,
and their territory,
with a devotion
like heat—
bearing down
on the desert.
II
The day star,
rises
to its peak,
then
is consumed,
piecemeal,
by shadow-
as if
on a dimmer switch,
at half mast in mourning—
all
species,
observing
in a shivering
silence—
but for
crickets,
who pulse,
like heart beats
in pale
twilight.
Cloud sheets
respond in tandem,
pulling a tent,
taut
against the sky,
doubling over as if straining,
to hold up
the atmosphere.
Glints
of escaping
sunlight,
doggedly reminding
of what
outlasts.
III
In the lingering
bright hours,
Earth’s
star,
at last
untethered–
from nature’s
whims-
is donned
by my skin,
like a balm,
restoring
faith-
each of us
relishing
the last
of Helios’s
tour,
respiting,
in knowing…
the one
constant–
resides
at the core-
brilliant
and unflinching,
always
persisting.
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