Sifts Poems

Transformed

...The red rising sun has transformed
Into puffy white striated gray clouds
Pasted onto a blue, sky-blue sky
A lovely scene touched by cool air

The partly cloudy touch says
A chance o...

For Sweet Morrow's Song

...Each moonlit walk, each starlight gaze
    On nights that knew such carefree days
Each whispered thrill on breezed romance
                      The passion of another chance

Each salted spray ...

Before the City Dawns

...(A subaltern dawn song...)


We rise before the rooster cries,

Before the sky begins to blush,

Before the bosses sip their tea,

We sweep the silence with a hush.




The city sleeps ...

I lay down my thoughts like an endless river, as the sun sifts light at dawn

...I lay down my thoughts like an endless river, as the sun sifts light at dawn,
I wish for you to smile, untouched by memories, without my heavy shadow, without the burden.
I see you walking down the...

Water

...p u l s e s

      diastolic   
                  systolic   
                             tides     

           e  l  a  s   t   i  c

edge of ebb  where water and salt an...

Cement

...In youth, we laughed with a stupid friend, 
Wandering the streets all night without an end. 
Friends are few, time is scarce, now here we are, 
Regretting in sorrow, as we ponder so far.

Life, ...

The Nudging

...What's with this nudging-
this perpetual nudging
from deep within,
urging me to write a poem?

A poem of feelings,
of rhythm and imagery.
And I am willing-
Grasping for words,
phrases, perha...

In This Wildnerness

...

In this wilderness I see Direction
where God’s truth sifts the leaves
and sings humanity’s song of Belong.

Where Alone 
never leaves me empty or afraid, 
where guardian energy is spoken 
...

Time is Pain

...In a cozy home where laughter bloomed,  
A mother watched her children, once in their rooms,  
Four bright stars, each chasing their dreams,  
With hearts full of hope and ambitious schemes.  

...

white

...the languid petals of addiction fall in a silent way

drugs to wipe clean the scribbled slate of the mind


adrift and alone on the ocean of the bathroom floor

down on my luck    down on my k...

The Out-Shuffling of Stars and Witches and Angels

...
My hand splits the deck, divides the weight  
of galaxies and shadows, halves of fate.  
At a drive-in, the Cutlass grows hot; glass bursts  
like safety-grade stars scattered between laps,  
a...

Under the vast sky, where stars tell their stories in whispers of light

...Under the vast sky, where stars tell their stories in whispers of light,
I wander through thoughts, seeking hidden meanings in the shadows of night,
Love knows no half measures, it's an ocean that ...

The Steps of Time

...Chill the north-east air
On the bravest cheek
Though the March sun sifts
Through the clouding sheet
As if winter fights
The advancing spring,
While the daffodils dance
In the darting breeze!
...

If You Look Inside My Eye

...
If you walk into classroom 314
You will see the perfect image of pristine
An iron statue, still and strong
A picture book motif of calm
But if you look just right into its eye
You’ll see just ...

Sipping Claret from a Lismore Goblet

...Bereft and alone since love was lost,
she sits in deep shadows
humming the same song
sipping claret from a Lismore goblet

Day and night, in silence she dwells 
Time no longer sifts through an ...

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