Long Riffling Poems
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Radiant crystals illuminate thee, nocturnal mistress
in the wan dawn light where darkness drapes skies
Requiem aeternam bright halo, lies heaven’s portal
Winters wispy cirrus refracting ring circling
Mohawkin bespeaks of a Christmas cold moon
…December’s icy grip
Riffling ebb and tide, spawner of loon
Let rage and ruin Not be the end of me
Rubaiyat’s rhyme in thy honor
Let the waters settle, quotes of Rumi
Mercurial doomsday ruminates Mina Loy
Reigning ascendant masking impressions
Clouds envelop, shadow’s born shorn
Ravishing stillness, stormy tasks pending…
bright white ring of light
rage and ruin’s calmly still ~
not the end of me
Lost sounds that call a memory to life
Loose change jingling in the pockets of children.
Baseball cards riffling in the spokes of a bicycle.
The clack-clack of roller skates over sidewalk cracks.
The clickety-click of a stick dragging along a picket fence.
The baying of backyard dogs seeking freedom.
The mournful moan of slippers sliding over a creaky floor.
The gleeful crunch of leaves under shuffling feet.
The whispered call of a windblown dove.
Voices swallowed by the silence of fresh snow.
The feeble flapping of a tree bound plastic bag.
The off key joy of Christmas carolers.
John G. Lawless
©11/9/2018
…and so I pictured peace
…and so I pictured peace.
the lea of the meadow at sunset
meadowlarks chasing invisible bugs,
unfelt breeze riffling the tall grass,
the halo of summer warmth.
unknown to me a battle raged
within the gentle stillness,
a struggle for balance, for survival,
for continuation of the species,
the struggle to achieve stasis.
…and so I questioned peace
and its aberrant deficiencies.
its state of constant flux,
conflicts over air, water, nutrients,
its need to be delicately tended.
…and so I came to know peace
not as a utopian hammock
but as a vibrant and living meadow
that must abide the necessity of change
while respecting the changes of necessity.
a peace that dances across the riffling grass
honors both the meadowlark and bug
paid homage in the warmth of sunset gold,
a peace that knows the burden of its halo.
2/27/2015
Submitted to – Pick a Subject – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Shadow Hamilton
They came last night
Sashayed and tromped through
A dreamy, semi-wakefulness
Snapshots of vague faces
Riffling pages of pageantry
Shuffling through suffering.
I failed to recognize many
Longed to linger with others
Applauded successes
Cheered failures resiliency
Reached to touch, to caress
The sinewy shadows of sorrow.
Awed by the strength and tenacity
Of life’s forever fortunes
As they danced across its ballroom floor
Huddled in its corners
Laughed at its ever-changing punchline.
A soft tear reminding me
That I had somehow been there
Shared a cosmic connection
With a distant,
Yet eternal
Moment.
Ripples flow across the lake
A profusion of serpents swimming
Wriggling from shore to shore
Skimming stone takes four hops
causing rings to widen
Circles created by the hand of man
kerplunk, splish and splash
Dragonfly perched on a cattail
flitting its wings in the air
making shadows that look like lace
Sunlight highlights them like prisms
sparkling in the peak of twilight
A frog jumps from a driftwood stump
half submerged among duckweed
Swirls of undulating wavelets
Wind driven movements
Riffling the surface
catch my eye
expanding ripples displayed
ripples across the lake