Short Rosiness Poems

distant hill
a river carrying
the spring
 
waters of spring
father backstrokes
into healthiness
 
spring drizzle
the bipinnate leaves
fold into shyness
 
spring day
spots of rosiness
in the bud
 
spring morning
a rose wallah 
dresses a boquet...

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nocturnal retreat

mauve tackles midnight
 lavender echoes whisper ~
  song of the rooster

curly coral clouds
 dressed in a burnished bronze blush ~
  ebony snoozes

round rosiness yawns
 in wispy gossamer hush ~
  the sweet scent of pink

puffy plumes of gold
 like lush heavenly spindrift ~
  nocturnal retreat

6/6/23...

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Swaddled 
in an Afghan 
woven by my step grandmother's 
thin spindly fingers, 
I am 
warmer than the womb 
then the 
pale yellow grey 
wall paper 
that 
seems to surround 
and wobble 
like the water globe 
on my dresser. 

Above, 
I see 
my mothers face, 
round, 
soft, 
tallow cheeks, 
I want to squeeze them 
pull the rosiness, 
into my small palms 
and eat it up....

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