Long Cinnabar Poems

So many, maybe millions
No, billions. Trillions?
Of stars, a quiet, hot snowfall
of white stars; sandal season squall.
Each birch tree here outdoing 
January's record accumulation.

Weeks of hour after hour after hour
upon day upon day upon day of
birches'...

Read More

As Medusa walks in, shuts the door,
caresses precision hand down the mahogany-
and shows one what for.

Senses in starbursts-cloudburst
flavor crystals accenting- your bloom 
of predicate corpus, cat claws in my brain, 
comes metamorphosis-
Led mushrooming depth of...

Read More

There’s something ornately comforting, in a downpour of a day’s healthy rain
So replenishing, cleansing, as renewing, the ultimate giver to feed life’s grain

As standing undercover feeling the smaller flecks of the rain against your skin
With...

Read More

Pardon ma'am, but I noticed you've been staring at this painting for a while
She is beautiful but has such a melancholy face, it's hard to look away
Her name is Veronique and that's me behind her,...

Read More

HAIKU ON LOVE # 1

You leave me after we make love
Moonbeam falls 
A poet shares my sorrow


HAIKU ON LOVE # 2
She coils him
Desolate
Autumn waits

HAIKU ON LOVE # 3
A love bruise
Wicked parrot
Season of rain

HAIKU ON LOVE#...

Read More

The Rose Horse

                                ...

Read More

All round the ring of Kerry’s highways, people point and cry
It’s 4 o’clock on the very dot and Mick’s rig is passing by,
It has glistening sheens of yellow, with cinnabar spots in red
Rich lozenges of...

Read More

At the frail fringe 
of the twilight zone
the dwindling day flushes
depleted
the halcyon horizon 
with the last shower                  ...

Read More

Inhaling, hushed, from hashed cigars
    my mind implodes in Malimar
        where Naiads bathe in caviar -
         ...

Read More

The nebulous night lifts the onyx veil 
up the crimson crown of the sky,
for the dawn to drizzle golden sequins 
on the halcyon horizon,
paint purple the mauve meadow 
for the dreaming dew drops 
to create...

Read More

Nature’s palette of golden paints overturns,
autumn's spectrum spills on color-burst landscape.


As the heat of the summer air dissipates away
The sapphire shine suffuses the crystalline sky
Crisp breeze ripples on the gilded thicket canopy
The rustling leaves perform...

Read More

The smoky dust screen blows away far into the halcyon horizon,
the flotilla of cotton cloud sails in the concave depth of cobalt.
Bowed down slender blades of cinnamon grass sway
in the crisp air on the lap...

Read More

The quill this evening is not a mere instrument, but a primordial beast,
A lacquered leviathan with a tip sharp as obsidian fangs,
Its body coiled like an ouroboros, devouring its own ink in vengeance,
It struggles under...

Read More

At the fringe 
of the twilight zone
the dwindling day
flushes halcyon horizon 
with cinnabar sequins,
the sunset splendor 
spins celestial strands 
in the formless film
of cadenced cloud, 
turning to cosmic violin,
r e v e r b e...

Read More

The clumps of climbing cotton clouds 
float slowly away, brushing the azure arena 
of the end-summer’s ashen sky. 
The returning birds bathe 
in the glimmer of the blue bay, 
as through the amber twilight gleam...

Read More

The clumps of climbing cotton clouds float slowly away, 
brushing the azure spread of the end-summer’s ashen sky. 
The returning birds bathe in the glimmer of the blue bay, 
in the amber twilight gleam to...

Read More

"These woods are lovely, dark and deep, 
But I have promises to keep, 
And miles to go before I sleep, 
And miles to go before I sleep.”  

~  Robert Frost

I'm an echo of...

Read More

The leaden cloud-covered sun
relentlessly starves the summer harvest-
strangling its life-giving light to wield the death
of all filaments and assemblance of living green.
Leaves plot their fate turning into a fiery protest
of orange, yellow, cinnabar, and tawny...

Read More

I dream fragments of poetry, 
	my pen balanced in my hand, 
	journal opened to that page 
	already darkened 
	with blots of frustration,
	asterisks for seemingly important ideas, 
	collections of words and phrases 
	intended for collage and...

Read More

Floating cerulean wisps of climbing cloud splash 
Azure paint on the end-summer burnt ashen sky.
Long awaited birds bathe in the sea of cobalt,
Lit by twilight glow to the amber nest they return. 

Dulcet autumn arrives...

Read More

The flotilla of the climbing clouds slowly floats away, 
embracing the azure of the end-summer’s ashen sky. 
The beguiled birds bathe in the glint of the blue bay, 
in the twilight gleam to their amber...

Read More

"Enthralled by the splendid tapestry of the creator,
in a trance I am charmed by nature’s grandeur"- by Poet


The wisps of cotton clouds float slowly away, 
brushing the end-summer cerulean crystal sky. 
Beguiled birds bathe in...

Read More

The cloud flotilla of lilacs slowly slides away 
across the misty screen shifting from the twilight sky. 
The beguiled birds bathe in the dome of blushing bay, 
in the flushing gleam of ambiance to their...

Read More

The wisps of the climbing clouds float slowly away, 
brushing the azure of the end-summer’s ashen sky. 
The returning birds bathe in the glint of the blue bay, 
in the twilight gleam to the amber...

Read More

As the flotilla of climbing clouds calmly drifts in the sky  
The beguiled birds bathe in the glimmer of the blue bay 
While autumn departs with crystal ambiance on the sly.
 
The transparent edge...

Read More