A red cloak covers the sky
a beautiful and somber numbing color...
Is the dark reddish solitude of the afternoon...
Offers us a show at the same time
of fear and ecstasy of wonder... !
The fiery day asks to be dark
to calm its igneous strength.
such natural beauty
in a powerful vision that makes us imagine
the tremendous beauty of the
beginning and finale of life!
Categories:
hesperus, allegory, allusion, analogy, imagery,
Form: Light Verse
The brilliant night is rich with hopeful stars
And I, alone, can see them, feel their joy
As I stand on the balcony and Mars
Recedes and Venus forges an alloy
Of Mercury and Saturn, both asleep.
Bright Hesperus! Help me the night to keep,
And teach me kindness and humility,
Whereby I let go of sweet reverie.
There is a way that God has ever made,
To stand, exalted, in his holy shade
And dream of Him, held focused in the heart.
Why, this, on Earth, shall be my lowly art.
Whereby I'll climb the Stairway to the Sun,
Lift center of the cloth, bless everyone.
Categories:
hesperus, appreciation, night, stars,
Form: Rhyme
By train, plane, by wings,
I hear the angels sing.
Their featherbell sleeves,
golden flutterbies weave
in mind-blowing confection.
I remember the affection
for long distance kin and kith —
missing links that make me writhe,
and Niagara Falls - its plunging
neckline, of psychedelic rainbows, lunging
catapult of sentiment and mist.
The kiss of sunflowers on smiling lips,
cruising excursions, explorations then kips.
The reward of sleep in the rocking cabin -
the deep with its sonorous spin.
Let the feathers fly! In travel, they win
and at last I’ll be calm of Hesperus dreams,
those dreams that come apart at the seams.
I hold tightly to sleeves, that cure of Spring,
a blizzard of lucid color that true living brings.
3/5/2021
Couplets - most with rhymes
Categories:
hesperus, angel, butterfly, color, life,
Form: Couplet
HESPERUS' NIGHTMARE
"For thirty-three years I have served in the Legislature. Every now and then, you simply give the citizens what they want." - Representative Steve Holland, D-Plantersville, Mississippi State Legislature **
Could this really be
in all honesty
what this ass's neigh
really meant to say?
Or
did a secret truth
bare its hidden fruit
in the mis-professed words
of a civic whore?
I have stumbled on this path
with words misstated in fervor.
I have felt the blissful stream
transform into Satan's roar!
With erred utterances I have drowned
the hope of friendship evermore!
Like Representative Holland
I tried in the very worst way
to profess my thoughts to you.
And in my very worst way I wrote
and lost your autumn bloom.
I dare not ask for your grace
but, for it, will pray.
** Tupelo Daily Journal article by Mr. Bobby Harrison, 30 March 2016.
Categories:
hesperus, abortion, political, truth,
Form: Prose Poetry
Bedeviled by the world so brutal
He still bring – off with a grin
Baseless towards one among the nation
Still the only one to conform every time of year -
Once in a blue moon
One will surely inquire
How he find himself one among the elite group.
Lost in the woods to construe the pragmatism of nature
Yet she finagle to retrace a new ménage
Migrated from a distanced island
The Macaw can flee to a new world.
Flocked by same species and aggressed by foes
Over again a fresh habitation
One will surely inquire
Indolence if ever existed.
An aeon latter the brightest star even bears away
The brightness of a solarday
The duskiness undimmed environ is then
Oppugned by thous admiring oculi
In a moment of agitation
Back to same state
One will surely remember
The brightest ring god has ever created.
Rare to our naked eyes
One-time she dupes and one-time she comes along
A glimpse of it in the morning and in the evening
Hesperus usually appears at sunset in the western sky.
Viewed by few, yet known to all
Later annotates
And the former waits for the next eventide.
Categories:
hesperus, art, imagination, nature
Form: Free verse
Magenta thatched magic
Lantern ravine
sugar plum shadows
haunting the stream
perplexing the galaxy
a siege of illusions
a serpentine rhapsody
leads to conclusions
Follow the lodestar
Hesperus rising
delirious love
is always surprising
weave me a diadem
wild orchids weeping
Norwegian whiskey
and Grieg
while I'm sleeping
Deep in our bower
a bold mandolin
bids us forget
all we are or have been
we rise on the vapors
melodic surrender
to the rhythm of love
and our night
to remember.
Categories:
hesperus, adventure, music, passion,
Form: Couplet