Oh, how I love staring up at the ethereal radiance of the moon,
resting against the endless onyx-black sky.
Her magical and mystical pearlescent glow is cast upon me,
I am delivered from my darkness—
I am shielded from my shadows.
The moon‘s celestial veil captivates me,
enticing me with her enchanting aura;
Her enigmatic beauty and powerful magnetism mesmerizes me.
When she is in her full-phase, so large and luminous, she appears nearby,
as if there is only a short distance keeping her and I apart.
Oh, how I wish it was possible to journey to the moon,
and walk lingeringly among the cratered rocky debris and gray powdery dust.
I would cherish the utter silence and serenity of space around me,
while forgetting all the desolation and ruination of the world I had left behind.
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steel whispers dawn—
fields blush crimson,
rivers choke on rusted dreams.
a mother's wail
echoes in the shell-cratered moon.
blood blooms
Gaza’s children
tread on shattered glass.
peace? a phantom
drowning in the mud.
bomb shelters abloom
uranium-enriched dreams
hives cratered by drones
The sun opens her eyes behind a roseate veil,
her aubade harmonizing with Argus-eyed blackbirds
as it rises to a crescendo, staring in her husband’s
cratered eyes, ready to relieve him of his watch over the
world’s children so he can attend to their parents —
that is, the cosmic bodies that collided to create them; the
sacred alchemy.
He lifts her honey veil; a goodnight kiss he hopes to reenact
eternally, the aeons circling anniversaries as if liesegang
rings. She looks back, her flint knife eyes flashing violently.
“This fierce face is a facade,” he thinks, seeing her tremulous
expression, lips quivering in anticipation; a holy seduction
— that is, the ancient and sui generis matrimonio of
gods.
In the sky, a brightly shining sun
is sending rays to catch someone,
but 'neath the trees I swiftly run.
Now, the hunt is taken by the moon,
but she won't snatch me very soon.
I peek from bed at that cratered goon,
who, undaunted, does then recruit
reinforcements, evil stars that shoot
twinkles at me, in hot pursuit,
but I'm laughing, oh so loud,
stars in bed, sun behind a shroud.
What's this - I'm chased by a cloud!
Everything in the heavens, high,
is after me, an important guy.
Do you know the reason why?
Don is the ultimate user
His deals seal you as a loser
When Trump holds the cards
The lives now in shards
Bear witness he’s an abuser
The Don has a trick to reveal
He’ll dick you and cancel your deal
Like hands on your neck
Trump voids your paycheck
And feels ecstasy when you squeal
If acts are life’s indicator
Don’s a classic woman hater
Though cratered with flab
Trump will pussies grab
As rapist and a dictator
What will show how Don’s dick-brain thinks?
Trump’s thrusts come with lies and high jinks!
Amid this disgust
Some high and non-plussed
Have heads up his rump with what stinks!
Joseph's brothers dipped his coat
into the blood of a goat
Jacobs said, My beloved son is surely gone
That was the robe he had on...
Joseph is still alive, the brothers said later
With that, their integrity cratered
Jacob disregarded them, they had lied before
~ The brothers had gotten what they had asked for
Meaningless thoughts drift slowly across my mind
Surrounded by bright gray and ebony sky.
Magnificent desolation envelopes me.
No perceived horizon,
All is calm, devoid of
Air, wind, and rain.
I breathe and take in
The stark beauty of a pristine
Celestial world.
Undisturbed and powdered beneath my feet
The cratered landscape reminds me
That I am an intruder,
In a realm unfamiliar
But majestically beautiful.
Magnificently barren orb,
Glowing, mysterious
Forever our neighbor
Our stoic satellite,
The Moon.
cratered like swiss cheese
brightest at full moon
lantern of the night
a mystic poetess in her thought patterns
of iambic heartbeats, makes new rhythms
with a symphony...joy and pain in cadence.
in her confetti of stars moonbeams cadence
caressing love in ivory and ebony patterns
perforated feelings careen melodic rhythms
in her sonnets, words entice in rhythms
lovebird's lyrics drift in endless cadence
cratered lands embellish crystallic patterns
Catharsis traces passionate patterns of rhythms in cadence.
Mercury
An Angel Having Recently Visited You
Sent back Metal Film
of Your Ancient shores
Cratered silver with loneliness
the Humming of Silver Tides
Or discs bent longingly
With long lonely empty looks
Disc crater eyes alloyed obsidian
Looking back at the messenger
With cold memory
Of the abandonment
Which bore their emptiness
In the insane heat of the void
And now leering livid
Yet recent in disdain the merging antiphony
Like arcadia from the ashes
For and through the endless night
And disenchanted contempt
Which bares no life
Except the whisper of Loneliness
The sun began to rise at the pale wink of dawn
just as the moon wearied and started to fade.
There were dappled rays spread across my lawn
then disappeared behind a maple forest glade.
Refulgent light hovered above earth at midday
while the moon rested before her nightly reign.
As people basked and romped all day in play,
celestial bodies pretend that it's sleep they feign.
The sun bowed and dimmed on the cusp of twilight
Awakening, were the cratered eyes of the moon.
A golden glow of sunset was ebbing before my sight
and Luna was rising with the trilling song of a loon.
Ra slipped into the sea as the horizon darkened.
Moonlight nodded to stars in a sky of midnight blue.
A deep sigh was heard; to the moon the sun harkened.
He whispered to her in their passing, "I bid you adieu."
Soft moonlight catches the eye
A luminous orb in the sky
A beacon both for you and I
Shadowed briefly as clouds pass by
Cratered deep on polar sides
Reflecting sunshine as it glides
Circling nights on cosmic rides
And affecting the ocean's tides
Sometimes bright and sometimes dull
Crescent, half, or completely full
With shades of ivory and steel wool
Held in check by gravity's pull
This goddess born from astral fires
A song erupts from Heaven's choirs
Poets write of mortal desires
And all the romance it inspires
My love cares not if one breaks cosmic laws
Draping deft kisses on cracked cratered flaws
Explicit union meets with apt applause
Bathing in morns reflect - the reveal transparent
Swathed solid sphere of rock - fierce beams glow apparent
My near face held captive locked to the Earth
With an allure that pulls high tides with mirth
As each wave heaves from the realm of my girth
Yet, there is my far side - my face eyes cannot see
Optical Illusion - will parity seek thee?
Like a stranger whose presence breeds wry pause
My unique unseen, loves kiss inapparent
What the human eye is yet to unearth
We radiate as one, both sides agree
Oh no!
OhhhhhhhhNoooooooooo!
OOOOOOOOhhhNNNNNNNoooo!
he moans on
a seedy red bus
in the City of Oaks
stuffed with wounded
weary passengers
sitting on grimy seats
trudging along wet
cratered roads towards
a decaying stained
shopping mall parking deck
(exhaling trails of rotting smoke)
NoooooooooooooooooooooooooooN!
OooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhH!
AhhhhhhhhhhhhhhH!
persistently screams
the raging passenger
in his own private hell
inflicting his horrors
on fellow travelers
who hope to survive their
cacophonous
bumpy journey
to a semi-terminal stop
(& reprieve from mobile terror)
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