Seasons Raven Poems

Seasons bring ... the nights, Machiavelli's
Corvus corax or ravens, hints, rallies
birds of good and evil, biblically,
and birds of a feather, ominously,
fed Elijah; 1 Kings 17:...

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("Raven With Big Heart Nebula", 2018, original encaustic)

Raven

Raven with his cloak of feathers
Shimmers in the noon day Sun
Calling, laughing, hopping, dancing
Plays with light in joy...

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Often winter is very harsh and cold,
and yet its frozen trees are draped
in white snow and that's charming and exciting;
look for the blooming snow flowers...

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The ribbon is cut
The die is cast
The cement is dry
Yet nothing lasts
The brazen rewarded
The hero a fool
All reason outdated
New fury the tool

A journey presented
Your ship...

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Summer Memories Of Love Within The Seasons Of Our Lives,
 A Collaboration With Vladislav Raven

(Double Sonnet)

PART ONE- 

Love doth ever sing a summer's song,
a memory...

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“The ribbon is cut
 The die is cast
 The cement is dry
 Yet nothing lasts
 The brazen rewarded
 The hero a fool
 All reason outdated
...

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OGUNLABI OLAJIDE YUSUF-NativePen 015
ROAMING RAVEN
TIME OF THOUGHT:10:15PM
DATE OF THOUGHT:2:12:2011

Where from here
Art thou heading to?
On errand?
I believe
Oh wait and hear
I have a message for them
Branch up...

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Raven of the Head Stones
gracing the smoky ground with a creeping divinity
you feel no cold
despite being dressed in your shimmering black gown that
holds no warmth...

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Long-lived and rusted 
the flint lock pistol clutched in suspense......        
death had come to call......   ...

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