Pain
Expunge
Green darner
Waltzing in mist
at midnight cobalt.
You're crazy by night sky.
the stars upon which you stare.
despite those shortsighted white specks,
Spruce-colored asteroids might have formed.
same as the whacked chords of a bird's wrecked wings,
harmony of the growth, qualm the heartbeat.
Sonic whispers and moonstruck cosmos
Which once enthused a warm dreamland
pectoral phantasmal crave
drawing on sapphire rocks,
heart hellish drumbeats.
Red silken shows.
Seas mourning
waft grief
air
Written: December 12, 2022
Categories:
pectoral, appreciation, creation, dark, stars,
Form: Etheree
Redding Poem 2
"Sacramento River WordScape"
These descendent waters swim like mad lagoon fish,
Heading decidedly south with a fiery mindless turn,
Their cool liquid urgencies reaching to all sides enticing
The bosomy turning earth and its pectoral indecencies,
With an impotent power unknown to anyone alive now,
As watery signatures knife their way into the crestfallen sand bars,
Adrift in an ambiguous undertow of death-marked reticences;
Swimming and floating lazily as a red lily floats downstream,
Enveloped cooly in blue clarity, absorbed by diamond sureness,
These arching trees lapping inward the reeking salmon atoms,
As rippling currents of heaving hands and wild bone sneezes,
Salvage the unsalvageable, and a solitary blue bird
Jiggling a crimson ring, as it bobs upon its ascended perch.
Categories:
pectoral, freedom, nature,
Form: Free verse
Swimming side by side in unison among red coral,
Entwining occasionally in their colourful pre-dawn dance,
A pair of small creatures resembling
Horses of the sea
Or perhaps Pegasuses - with pectoral fins
Rapidly fluttering like hummingbird wings -
Swirl and sometimes touch snouts, as if kissing.
Ending their ritual, the female
Spirals up out of seagrass, leaving her mate impregnated.
May 5, 2018
Categories:
pectoral, animal,
Form: Acrostic