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The Scorpion's Touch

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“The Scorpion’s Touch”

Under glass
the sound cuts out sharp
just like under water
and we run out of breath 
like insects running around 
frantically out of time
we are ...

Categories: scorpius, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Moonlight Metaphors

...In the morning,
I am not a poet.
This is no matter of opinion,
It is an undisputable fact, and don't I know it.

I am not a poet
In the afternoon, either.
Not for a lack of trying,
The words ...

Categories: scorpius, dream, hyperbole, imagery, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

Call From a Winter's Night Up North

...I curl up
In the cradle of our cabin
This Friday night in January

The deck out back
Glows
Bright as its own light
With new snow
From my evening muted TV

Cliff an abyss two feet beyond

...

Categories: scorpius, dark, forgiveness, god, loneliness,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Butterfly Nebula

...What yonder lies in distant sky,
and looks like lovely butterfly?
A cloud of gas that iodized
whose blazing beauty mesmerized.

Throughout the universe serene,
in Scorpius she can b...

Categories: scorpius, beauty, nature, sky, stars,
Form: Rhyme

The Nifty Named Nebula the Butterfly

...After the remote Big Bang cosmic chaos
in infinite void primal dust of matter chose
to cluster in captivating clumps so designed
in ethereal forms of nebula defined.

The cosmic winter’s...

Categories: scorpius, analogy, space,
Form: Rhyme

When Scorpio Goes Dark

...Antares' red glow bears firmly down
upon plush, chartreuse carpet
lying prone against the obsidian expanse,
blanketing sections of a remote 
blue sphere, purling,

spinning helplessly 
through...

Categories: scorpius, space, stars,
Form: Free verse

Rose and Scorpius

...Meet me at the corner of the Universe
Where it's peace and quiet
The darkness is regal
By the trillion dancing stars

Catch a glimpse of my smile
Under the glimmer of the lonely moon

Hush no...

Categories: scorpius, august, fantasy, imagination, love,
Form: Free verse

A Midsummer Night's Beach

...When I was a girl, still on the island
I’d sit in the sand
and brood
and revel
in what I thought was utter enlightenment
a teenage rebel
with dime-store refinement
We were all this way, and th...

Categories: scorpius, beauty, color, creation, sea,
Form: Free verse

A Dream Too Far Distant

...Night revolves in stillness,
reaching for the dawn.
Orion, Taurus and the Dogs,
yield to Deneb and the Swan.

And there in deep south rising,
a blood-tinged, pulsing heart,
Antares, stinger an...

Categories: scorpius, anniversary,
Form: Quatrain

Butterfly Reverie

...Is it a butterfly out in the blue,
poised in its daintily delicate flight—
nebula N G C six three oh two—
offering rhymers a poem to write?

In our galaxy, that is the Way Milky,
with structure...

Categories: scorpius, dream, fantasy, imagery, imagination,
Form: Ekphrasis

The Stars

...The Stars

     It sings "twinkle twinkle little star" over and over again as it flickers on and off like a lightbulb.
     I look up and see the stars. 
They aren't stars but suns. 
     I close my ...

Categories: scorpius, adventure, art, fantasy, children,
Form: Light Verse

Dancing With a Star

...I want to dance with a star, and just be let free,
Float above Orion's Belt, so no drama can reach me,
Take a swim in the Big Dipper, and just feel relaxed,
Hug the Great Bear, so i won't feel lif...

Categories: scorpius, adventureme, me, cancer,
Form: I do not know?