Rose Quatern Poems

Though echo of love returns not
at times, do we yet hold steady,
untying knots that makes heart taut,
for each bout, lovingly ready?

To be always in equipoise,
though...

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You Rogue

You rogue, “you made a mess of me.”
First you held me like a flower,
which made me think that I would be
safe in your ivory...

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Skylarks Call Across Light of Morning 1-11-23  
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Skylarks Call Across Light of Morning

“Skylarks call across morning light”
After cold quiet stills laughter
In the deep shafts...

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A citrine leaf in lingered lilt
did savor breeze of sapphire whisk
as Autumn’s honey-secrets spilt.
A hopscotch star.. an ember brisk,

she sighed and fell— then took her...

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Dew drenched petals, kissed by soft light
Whisper and sigh, luring dream’s smile
Dawn’s magnificence, though not quite
So vibrant as summer’s exile

Season of mirth, season of grace
Dew...

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WAVE  OF  FANTASY 


     Me to ripple on wave of fantasy 
     Dreamy desires sparkling...

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Most beautiful is Christmas Day -
remembrance of the newborn King.
How beautiful when people pray
and praises to the good Lord sing.

How sweet when joy rings in...

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TELL IT LIKE IT IS


   I wish to tell it like it is
   what I think to put that straight way:
...

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More creative than the wildest schemes
Power released in sudden splendid splashes,
Determined to succeed in gushing streams 
The human spirit like brilliant lightning flashes.

Indisputable and determined...

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Are you chameleons, dearest leaves?
Stealing colors of amber, like thieves;
Hiding pure gold dusts within, sometimes, 
Putting on crimson shown like sun-shines...!

Birds, dear, from for lands!...

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He died for us so we might live
Upon a cross for all to see
He paid sins cost in full for us
So we can have eternity

No...

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This most peculiar man
Who did handstands in the pool
Always in the shallow end
In his speedo, to stay cool?

I've seen him dance in the street alone
This...

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The gift that I give you, my dear
Ripping off your dark delusion
Self-blocking Gods light to appear 
Enabling your soul’s ascension

Is your heart open to receive
The...

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Oh, hope so fragile: hope forlorn -
when pain or sorrow are the yoke
it seems for ages you have worn,
on fumes of  great dismay you...

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Resplendent showy white blossoms 
Will soon embrace the backyard rose,
Bring pure blooms to the pom-pom bush
And towering Bradford pear tree.

Warm reminders of winter's snow
Resplendent showy...

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