Vapour Trail Mirage

Shafts of light caress the silver hinges
in my doorway, weaving shiny webs
around its oak  encrusted entrance.
Open razzle-dazzle in full spectrum
to a morning that has overslept.
As rainbows flash across my sun-starved eyes,
it dawns on me those neap tide nacres 
that I crave, the orange-red cloud eternally
adrift, azimuthal coin beyond imagining,
we’re mere vapour trail mirage.
Instead a spring cascade of deep blue
sea amethysts loiter round my hearth,
with  hazel brown inner eye an opal laden key

Posted : 9th March 2022
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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Kendrick Avatar
February 12, 2026 at 5:19 AM
Some very descriptive phrases in this one, Howard. Creative work for sure. Thank you for sharing it with us. Way to go. Sara K
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