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Premium Member Pleading with the Stars

Each morning, the sun rises, full and bright,
but in the day, I'm not entranced -  only in the night.
The sun may be loving.  The sun may be pure. 
But, I yearn for a twinkling, more demure. 

I beseech the sun to undress the stars
as lovely Venus lets fall her gown for Mars.
Blushing star, you're hiding something from my eye. 
I know your fire burns, though you're so shy. 

A billion eyes fall on you from the earth - 
show me, mine are the only ones of worth. 
I reach up to you with my hungry arms.   
Let my eyes caress your secret charms,

that the two of us may love and play 
on harp strings - each shimmering silver ray,
until, in one rapturous cry, 
we find ecstasy in the ink black sky.

Ocean Cake

An Ocean
With twin islands,
Identical but not quite.
Between them,
An ink-black butterfly rests,
Wings spread in quiet command,
Stealing the eyes of passing sailors.
They gather at the shore, worshipping ink and skin,
blind to the waters beneath.
All but Captain Karlek.
He does not anchor
at shallow wonders.
His compass pulls him north
past the islands,
Past the butterfly’s spell, into the Ocean’s origin.
Where depth is not seen,
but felt.
And the question follows:
will Karlek dissolve into her vastness
or drift, like the others,
lost at the surface?

Premium Member FROZEN PSALM

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Bare fingers grasp~
the winter sky's cold scripture,
ink-black and aching.
Each branch a frozen psalm,
waiting for spring's warm amen.


Spring

I loved on Saturdays in March, at dawn
(back then, each day was Saturday) to root
in pond and hedgerow.  Light was pale, dilute,
and buds clung tight and hard around the thorn.

This season, with the world so freshly born,
enchanted me.  Each flicking, wedge-faced newt,
sedge on his face, unconscionably cute,
each ink-black eye from thousands in the spawn,

each clear cold pool, each acid-green young shoot,
each minnow which acknowledged my pursuit
and twitched my hand-held line (no hope of rod!),
each copse, so self-contained and absolute,
with nascent blossom dusted, bluebell-shod,
appeared to me a pledge of life from God.

Fragments

I said I couldn’t write 
for I am an empty pen,
my ink wasted
on letters no one will read.
Torn, crumpled,
fed to the black hole
of a trash can.

Now I write of silence
Etching words into wood
For I have broken my vow with the papers
It isn’t determination,
nor delusion
just a moment,
a fragment that insists on staying.

And still, I write
not with ink,
but with the sharp edge
of a pen
long drained of stain.

Premium Member The Moon and Stars

There was a chill in the Fall night_
as I walked about my neighborhood,
and up above the full moon was an orange ball,
in the ink black sky watching me.
And sparkling here and there, everywhere were stars,
twinkling like precious little diamonds.


Winter Solstice

Give yourself to slumber
under ink black clouds.
Moon below the horizon,
light for when it’s dark.
Lie in peaceful presence.
Silhouette of the trees
mythologies reverberate
of songs, put us to sleep.
Dream of all the beings,
our kin gathered around,
flames flicker in shadows
mysteries of living found.
Maybe someday you’ll join us
under the sky’s moonlight.
Stories, song and dancing
long into the warm night.
I hope someday you’ll join us
maybe for just one tale.
World quiet from the fighting
a chance to just exhale.

Acresdown by Moonlight

A cold full moon greets baby Mars
Ink black sky shot through with diamond stars
A crystal wrap cloaks acres down
Ethereal light floods all around

Golden dear cross the sky line
To pull Santa’s slay one more time
An owl hoots out his mournful song
Christmas is coming it won’t be long

Acres Down, 7th December 2022

Premium Member Mother


"Mere echoes of changing seasons passed, Mother Nature doesn't give it a second chance or through as the axis shifts."
 quote by poet

Mother Nature's quenching heartbeat, 
Sipping the wavering unfurl dawn sun.
It teases yellow, and green loveliness 
Of her rich breast, ripple dress endowment. 

Sweet scented fragrance embracing of spring. 
Bees dart, nuzzle among open vernal parasol blooms. 
Iridescent organza rotates, awaiting playful feet, 
Pollen dress laden in ambrosia, a golden dream. 

Sun blending amber and lemon hues of summer 
Rays of warmth, flicker through waves of clouds. 
Indigo bunting perch on a wild sunflower 
Amid a brilliant and pleasant rising strawberry moon. 

Autumnal tint in the vast radiant cool evening sky. 
The rustling crunch of scarlet and golden leaves that fall. 
Living benevolent trees with generating slumber. 
Chill wraith perigean full moon, fades into the ink-black heaven.

Mother nature slowly does sleep beneath cold snow.
Winter's breath blows when flowers are scarce. 
Birds migrate, bees huddle together to keep warm. 
Darkness slowly creeps amid shivering twilight.

Premium Member Noonday July Sky

scorching blood red orb
clouds on silken mirror gleam 
noonday cosmic flare
ink black thunder growls, monsoon 
squall from volatile blue sky


NB Red orb is a synonym for the sun.

Date posted ; July 9th 2022

Reading

I love traveling the world in the comfort of my bed at my own home,
Through pages,
Ink black and white,
Sound of turning pages,
As I age deep into characters,
I know now I am the character
Choosing my favorite
Because here I have a choice.
I learn about pain as they fall and fail
I share a tear as they die
Now I realise that
Pain sometimes is a matter of our own choices,
But with time I realise it wasn't just a story
As I relate too deep with it.
I just love living in the thoughts of shelves,
Feeling myself.
Exactly what I abhor to adore.
I love how every page is different from another
But same book, isn't that odd?
Nope, it's a lesson learnt 
That in this life
Years, day, time may be the same
But different experiences we experiencing
So I keep on reading
And I keep on learning this life through every page I turn

#thelivingpoet

I Could Write Words

that pause a tears tumbling
or words that gods would rip from reality
for none to repeat
words that crumble
under winds slip
Yet i could write of eyeless Yeti's
words that unfurl like a water dipped petal
words of fear
like a shadowed figures
inhuman smile
greeting from the top of the stairs
words planely plain
i always sit at the back of the plane
ever heard of one reversing into a mountain
with a whip of my wrist turn sword
into words
Words that peer from beneath
tear stained fingertips
as another blow lands next to my ear
S
--w
-a
n
---n
--i
---n----------n-----k----n
--g and s-----a-----i-----g into lines
as the mist just misses
the ink black still
before the grey and the numb
give birth to the static

Premium Member Sky Beings

Sky Beings

Present since the day of creation,
They define the firmament
Populating the night sight sky 
In ever changing relationships
As Galileo’s sphere revolves on it axis 
Only to reappear for the same journey each night.

The focus of fascination and the focus of anthropomorphism
They populate Native American myths and legends
Recited around the dancing, leaping fires as they send their sparks skyward
In the otherwise ink black night.  

The above people, sky beings,
Were venerated in those stories which draw us 
Both inward and outward to the wonder suspended above.

One can only imagine and try to recreate the scene, the stories of
“How fisher went to the sky land” (Ojibwe)
“The quillwork girl and her seven brothers” (Cheyenne)
“They that case after the bear” (Fox)
“Women who married star husbands” (Chippewa)
“How Spirit dog made the milky way”.

These among the others,
Give breath and wonder and magic in the silent night darkness
To the sky beings above.

Premium Member Wee Small Hours

Hobgoblin in the gutter under canopy of midnight, 
magic brew of muti without rein.
Shadow figure torchon, darting half-light dare.
Spine chilling droplets wobble slowly down drains,
rusty copper mouthwash at the edge of jagged chutes. 
Eerie urban soundscapes frame,
a sneeze  or smothered cough.
Drone of vagrant motors probe, the flyby ink-black abyss.
Youthful laughter echoes over back streets,
as nearby lamp posts cast their bloodshot rays.
Night owls chinwag over Onion Bhaji,  
raucous babble buried in a saffron whiff.
Strains of ragtime jazz and sleek arpeggios,
shrine or vinyl monument ahoy. 
Hobo’s lonely whistle on an empty pier.
Urban jungle cast-off ghostly lurch,/
Burakumin patsy in high dudgeon.
Spooky timelines relish every moment of suspense, 
swallowing  the hush with ghoulish glee.
Quasimodo bell ring vaults a broomstick,
setter of alarm and wanton panic.
City wall clock twiddles on its hourly thumb, 
scene plotter’s endless play denouement,
wee small hour dialogue without a script,
waiting for the dawn to take it’s baton.

Lone

Snakelike writhing twisting clenching soul pain.
Shooting needles crystal shards sharp and fine
Blame shame there is no gain along this vein
Mundane challenge gives no freedom to chime.
Music slowing, life blind with mist and fogs
brain seize, monochrome visions seep inside.
Lone in self, connection broken, stops cogs.
Turning whirling synapses all now fried.
Far memories brighter than the now dark 
reality, by far outshine day now.
Solace they give for the ink black down heart.
The climb up from the depth we know not how
Shining on and in our memories through.
Hale whole body laughing forever you.
 
30/1/2020

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