Ask
better questions
Tell
better lies
Marry
the moment
Divorcing
the time
Search
for new meaning
That cross
on the hill
Dream
in the daylight
Forever
— until
(Dreamsleep: September, 2026)
Hello Today
My blinds read aglow___|
as if illuminated loose leaf__|
I'm drawing the tasseled strings_|
with a hearty anticipatory hopeful _ |
Precious Lord what might today bring_ |
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME
ALL YEAR, DANIELLE SMITH DOES CHIME
LATE SUNRISE A CRIME
Screams in the daylight
No judge nor jury, bad sins
Archipelago
Daylight Savings Time—
How do you even save the time?
Do you put it in the bank,
hoping to use it later?
Daylight Savings Time—
Why would you save it?
Could we make Christmas longer
or add time to summer vacation?
Daylight Savings Time—
I know what I would not do!
I would never save it
to spend more time at school!
The sky is so pretty even when so partly cloudy.
The white clouds floating by gently, always oh so fluffy.
The blue hue of the atmosphere makes any scenery lovely.
Christ awakened Dionel from the death-filled night
Whose heart bloomed with the Cathar’s fire
Syzygos brought the age of new gnosis to light
Christ awakened Dionel from the death-filled night
To be Valentinus, his Church back in daylight
Graced with Montségur’s black crozier
Christ awakened Dionel from the death-filled night
Whose heart bloomed with the Cathar’s fire
TONIGHT WE LOSE SLEEP
AHEAD AN HOUR WE WILL LEAP
LESS TIME, COUNTING SHEEP
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Henry the squirrel with his pals conspired~
a silent coup, a plot so ingenious, so inspired.
They stole an hour from humans’ sleep,
hid it where the night is unfathomably deep.
Henry decreed: For gathering nuts more daylight is required.
We humans woke confused, rubbing our eyes,
betrayed by dawn’s deceitful rise.
The forest creatures, too, awoke in confusion,
their internal clocks spun in chaotic delusion.
So here we are: victims of Henry’s temporal enterprise.
Morning
breaking daylight
from darkness emerges
first sun rays between waking clouds
Awake
Wake!
Timeless dawn,
Lights praying divine,
Messaging eternally,
Devoted to peaceful day,
Reflecting our grace,
Forever
Loved.
Chant,
thrilling musical,
pipe warble croon,
of sluggish rising dawn,
aural
Retracing all my steps
Still looking for the last breadcrumb
Trying to find my way back
From who I have become
Look up at the daylight
Thinking it will leave a clue
Shine a light on all my mistakes,
On what I thought I knew
I think i wanna go home
But I cant remember why
All the rooms there are haunted
All my plans go awry
So I'll walk until my feet bleed,
"Leave your shoes at the door".
Red-clay colored head to bone
Always leave me looking for more
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
steel ribs glow molten,
swallowing the day’s last light~
Reunion Tower leans into the flush of dusk.
traffic pulses like slow veins,
while the skyline sharpens,
then softens—a blade dipped in honey.
high above, jet trails fray
into pink gauze,
and Dallas exhales,
shedding its daylight skin.
The short daylight hours, winter roses blossoming, everlasting smell .
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