Dark Idyll (Idyl) Poems

If only for once
Dusk and dawn came together
Us beasts, those animals
If only twilight would last forever…

Dancing in the daylight
Dreaming of the moonlight
Howling at the night...

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Huge worn stone lid removed

--- dragged to one side -

centuries ago, and not moved since ---

nestled in grassy pasture land;

cistern filled -

w/ cool rippling water...

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Silence is golden or, so the saying goes.
But what is silence? Absence of sound, unspoken words, the stillness of the night?
Silence is a miracle of...

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Exodus

Dew-risen art the dawn of life
This life, my passage 
Curiosity arrays his patient plight
Against the willy-nilly hours of time
Up and down, side to side 
Kites...

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I heard the echo through the window
I swear I heard the echo myself through the window
Last night when our moon appeared
She fully showed with gleaming...

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Tanka
I had so many dreams
They laughed the ones who had lost theirs
Told me I was a fool
But in their laughter I sensed their tears. 



Tanka
There...

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I used to make up stories for children
none are left.
Sing babes in arms lullaby's
and goodnight.
Remembering beds of painted flowers
past and new.
Stories for children rhymed for...

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As light peeps through the silent trees
to touch the damp and mossy earth,
the birds pay homage to creation -
singing in sweet jubilation.

While a young fawn...

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