Moon Choka Poems

Yesterday has passed,
today I shall rise and dream,
let mourning stars fade.
Some flowers may wilt,
Yet fragrance remains when skies-
bleed cantaloupe hope.
Ruby crowned kinglets,
croon and rest on...

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Centuries ago

In ancient Hermopolis

A debate roared loud

Between a proud Christian priest

And a strange shepherd

Who was a Manichaean

Wearing ragged clothes

And who was looking for sheep

“Flames will...

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Our mind conditioned,
we chased objects of desire
but to no avail.

Reaching exhaustion,
we renounced the outer world,
which offers nothing.

Our identity,
which depends on flow of thought,
resisted silence.

We were...

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Sunlight was paling.
Was it drifting on the sea
like an ebbing tide?
It glinted farewell
to a day of sovereignty
as twilight drew nigh.
At the cusp of night
a new...

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Redbird at midnight
Where did the orange sun go
on Emerald Lane?
Stars twinkle summer
butterfly wings so weary
Lights out cool fireflies.
Resting on jade grass
do the crickets miss their...

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Man laying in grass 
Wearing the skins of wild beasts 
With acorns in hand 
A spear of stone next to him 
He laughed to himself...

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moon peers from heaven
                     ...

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hypnopompic hues
     multifaceted jewels
          confetti luminaries
a gift from mother?
   ...

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In a brown study 
     he's tethered to memories 
      sweet and strikingly vivid.

  ...

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Three hands of time roll,
pass one by one in circles
golden hours, silver minutes 
relentless seconds.
thoughts pulse to murky future 
lost in what's there left behind.

Mystical...

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this night is our last
few precious hours for loving
time for making memories
till it’s time to part
so kiss me hold me love me
lose yourself in my...

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Adventure awaits
in the pages of a book,
where you can ride a dragon
or explore the moon.
Feel wind under your wings,
and fly high amongst the clouds.

Imagination
inks a...

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Lunaris Jovis 

planetae, planetary

moons of Jupiter

as of the past year

of twenty eighteen, there are

seventy-nine known

satellites, whereto,

four of the largest moons were

first discovered by

Galileo back

in sixteen-o-nine,...

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tenderized neck bone ~
the ancient one sinks her pulse
dire with sharpened fangs

perplexed her face drains
from purity to pallid ~
eclipse of the moon

she weeps at her...

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Wolves baying at old
Mother Moon as she sits in
Obsidian sky;

Night slipped unnoticed;
Across the land, waking her;
And put her to work.

She and Sun will not 
Be...

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