New Arrival

Alone

	Having now ascended the timeless moss-encroached stone steps
	onto the new plain: earthy, pale, yellow, and grassy – 
	yet there is no grass;
	only a large sun near the horizon, neither setting or rising
	sun shining with the pale blue sky fading brightly to black,
	whose wind breezes delicate music and ethereal threads.

		Could just as well be surging up through fractures
	in the ground, but this cool golden land remains solid
	in its effortless abandon.

	The land stretches away to vanish.  Nowhere is it close.
It is under my feet, grazing imagined toes.

Feeling the shade and coolness of the great pines, 
I see in all directions as there are no trees.

A few horizontal wisps of white cloud, touched with the sun,
draw their close star into my universe as I converse 
with myself and new surroundings,

Alone on my sheet of plain and singing sky.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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Martsolf Avatar
May 12, 2015 at 3:47 PM
Wow Dave....Is there no end to your endeavors!! I'm not much of, or qualified to be a critic of poetry...but if you're supposed to feel and see images as you read the words..then you certainly accomplished what you set out to do! Nice to see you everywhere brother! Keep it up...Nirvana approaches!
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May 12, 2015 at 5:34 PM
Well, gotta love those poems. I love the form. What do they call that? Telepathic? Niiiiice!
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May 12, 2015 at 5:32 PM
Whoa! I gotta read some of this dude's poetry. Hey, Mark! Oh, and btw, these odes are about 20-30 years old. I don't know if there is any word left in me. We'll see. Thanks for the kind comments. Cheers, Dave
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