Pearl Moon Blooms
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Written: February 27, 2024
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Dwindling diamond daub, an amber
glittering glow
diaphanous verism of glass
and yet…
wreathed in wisteria-washed...
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Categories:
billets, beauty, flower, love,
Form: Free verse
Twelve Days of a Modern Christmas
...On the first day if Christmas not much of a yield
A false sense of peace over a normally killing field
On the second day of Christmas each peace patrol
Went back and forth from billets in its appo...
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Categories:
billets, christmas, conflict, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme
Swords Speak
...Swords speak brittle metal thrusts
singing a song in the wind by touch and lost trust;
blade upon blade clanging the swish of empty points
deeply cut for glory and honor now disjoint.
The swo...
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Categories:
billets, brother, father, son, spoken
Form: Quatrain
Lost Earth
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At first we were creatures,
Now here we all are,
In this celestial lab,
Within a glass jar.
Pleading our innocence,
Underneath the scope,
Perched on our doorsteps.
Searching for ho...
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Categories:
billets, earth, war,
Form: Quatern
Eclipse of the Soul
...Eclipse Of The Soul
By: Noel N. Villarosa
Plants harmonize to the sun to bring life aglow
And to rest at the night’s luminary
The sea is waiting for the wind to blow
And serve as a cradle fo...
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Categories:
billets, confusion, faith, hope, life,
Form: Free verse