Best Wakens Poems

spring wakens my tree -
a bejeweled perfumed bride. . . .
love birds make their nest

summer’s yellowed lawn
beneath my tree’s sombrero. . . . 
grass breathes...

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To watch the morning sun's soft lambent glow
Rise with glorious warm splayed reddish light
To feel life's allure on landscape's plateau
With majestic embers to chase the...

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Two Silly Fools (at the coffee shop)


The shop was full
Only one seat to spare
Excuse me sirs, can I have a chair?
Why yes they said, smiles...

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The sun shines in perfect darkness, twirling relentlessly ...

as do a trillion trillion other stars, daubed on the blackest black.
Still, life itself seeds and burgeons...

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She wakens to the most ungodly ring tone-
her husband's cell phone left there by her bed.
And next, her damn alarm clock's blare is fed
by noise...

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earth's splendor wakens
aurora borealis 
empty vessels filled.



entry for Nathan D.... Instant Telegram haiku contest....

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Deemed significant culturally,
a fantastic and old comedy
is this film I love,
which is the tale of
a weatherman played by Bill Murray.

This weatherman Phil has been sent
to...

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In a stone cottage surrounded by trees,
I live here listening to birds and bees.
The cock crows each morn, wakens me at dawn.
I curse the beast,...

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In my global village, Oxy, where folks live all alone,
There’s lots of open secrets, for secrets are well-known!

Fairly dark alien residents live with us above...

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How the morn wakens with life,

   to tether a sleepy soul

   with simple delights;

The manna lights upon the land,

  ...

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My sunshine in the morning wakens me
with eyes that twinkle mischief and delight.
My sunflower whose gaze I love to see
is he – my summer love...

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Dawn wakens with peach tassels in her hair
Adorning trees with embroidered splendor,
While daylight circles through gold flakes mid-air
That I wonder if such charm is just...

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Wistful dreams
— like frost flowers
dainty  
formed in Fall’s brisk —
melt like wishful tears 
as dawn’s glow 
wakens 
sweet mirage 
of us
twined in love’s 
filigree-

abandoned......

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Expectations

Triumphant note of a magnolia's pearly white
Wakens the sleeping ground,
Beautiful ballerina
Impressing all around.
Herself the spotlight.
Brave fragile snowdrops light the woods' darkness,

Fluting, keen, white and green
Like...

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The poem is in conjunction with the video
Halloween Night



Enter the perfume curiosity shop
For the inquisitive 
All perfume smells entwine
The aroma wakens the mind
Slowly binding into...

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