Short Burgundies Poems

sleeping deep as night
and dreaming up to the stars
such midnight colors

burnt orange and creams
vividness imaginings
under red, red mars

burgundies and golds
converge on the pinks and blues
soon sweet sunshine blooms...

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A dozen roses
 petals falling away
 one by one,
crimson red burgundies fading
 Cleopatra longing in seduction
 Anthony succumbing with every 
  touch at I love you;
fading red to gentle pinks
 reverent grace and innocence
 calling out to you,
a single white rose in purity
 Adonis wounded in love pursuit
 Aphrodite rushing to his side,
 set aside to silently speak
  here I am, just for you....

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Dark wine reminds me of you
The burgundies and cabarets
The tang and thrum and hiss
That spiral like Egyptian silk

Nights that swell like cork
This night, a thousand
Under va single lamplight
In public or alone
Very late or very early
When I write my poems

Something of you still taut
Still tugs still pulls
A rope that trembled
Hummed between us
Hummed, love, didn't it
Love, how it hummed...

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I go to the edge of the world
And I find
Yellows and oranges
Reds, scarlets, mauves, and burgundies
All congested together
Into a blasting color display
Turning the blue gradually
Into black nothingness
And bringing the darkening sky
Black behind the tail
Of the solar ball
As the sun sets
These colors get darker
Until darkness comes
At the very end 

Russell Sivey

Contest: Poem about "Sunset"
Sponsor: Leonora Galinta

8/5/2013...

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