Winter Mythology Poems

Struggling
With carrying branches to dry for kindling,
Cursing
the seemingly extra long winter and those
who keep bringing it;
a shadow drifts over me like a primordial raven,
and a rush...

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Gray,
Dismal
Rainy days.
Then leafless trees,
As it gets warmer,
All start to sprout new buds.
Migratory birds appear.
Abandoning the underworld, 
And the ruler of the dead, Hades,
Persephone returns to...

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Spring arrived, ‘Twas the dawn of man
Consciousness exploded with a Big Bang
We foraged inquisitively for berries and nuts
Soon building settlements and primitive huts

A subtle spark...

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Translucent vials of blood collected
You possessed so much more than I expected 
And still you search for more to inspire

Day was breaking but you found...

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Each glimpse I glance through, though brim-fills with splendorous landscapes,
Why does darkness accompany the bright and charming shapes...?

Why do each trail I tread through the...

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Wind god
Boreas- god
Of Winter and North Wind
Swept down from cold northern mountains
of Thrake

He blew
Cold icy gusts
Of breath from bloated cheeks-
Hair and beard spiked with ice,...

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I use to watch my ole man
Make 3 ton piles of sawdust
Into press bricks. He'd go into
Town with his truck loaded and
a concession stand and...

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Here & there, everywhere 
lie pieces & parts of me
I exist only in the moments between what is and will be…

Taking a ride to the...

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My thoughts drift...back 
...to days-long ago...
like faded photographs...
the sun is
bright... 
the day is brilliant and crisp...

I stand among the forest of lost moments
like, dear, that...

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A Season for war
We rage in twilight…

At the edge of our reason.
Winter surges at the realm,
Summer comes to slay,
Spring tries to heal,
Fall loves the decay.

Black...

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Bigfoot Emerges After the Fall of Humanity

After the bombs stop falling
After the nuclear winter
After the collapse of civilization

All that remains
Are a few scattered bands 
Of...

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A silent figure stands on the edge of a cliff,
the wind is sharp, winter is in its heart.

Its thoughts are lost 
in the sterile Point...

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first new moon
the time
to celebrate and rejoice
darkness and light
in equal measure
seedling breaks ground
a change of weather stirs
conversations in the wind
winter melds into spring
conversations in the...

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The nights grow long and the frost 
tinges the summer air, crisp n fresh. 

The coming autumn fire, the burn of wood
cedar & pine spices...

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The ground is hard 
from last night's snow
all creation has frozen, 
slick ice from a day of infernal sun

Twilight has bled away to pitch-black onyx...

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