Three thousand chairs are crammed across the field,
A sea of cheap black gowns and melting ice.
We’re sitting trapped without a sunlit shield,
While sweat drips down my neck to mock me twice.
The principal yells names at breakneck pace,
A steady roar from "Aaron" down to "Zane."
I’m stuck somewhere around the middle space,
My rear is numb, my brain feels like pure pain.
By letter M, the afternoon turns harsh,
Lost in a sea of gowns forevermore.
Are we graduating or trapped in a marsh?
The kid beside me starts to nod and snore.
Three thousand names read off without a pause—
I only stayed because my mom said I had to!
Sun's passion in soft carnation pink
pink ink in lapis lazuli sky
Sky dazzling in bright colours sunlit
sunlit is that wistful twilight sigh
Sigh disclosing gloaming arcana
arcana which won't simply vanish
Vanish from horizon's shadows dark
dark dusk saga that sorrows banish
{A poem without the letter 'E' using chain rhyme}
Turned my chili, made from my
Homegrown heirloom tomatoes
Into Cincinnati 3-way chili with
Reggiano cheese, happened to
Look out my deck & captured the
Sundown reflecting off my
Red pine inches from my reach!
Understanding how grateful I am
For nature's beauty my eyes behold
Tho partially blind from my stroke
Straight ahead was not hampered!
Filling me with God's Grace!
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colors go around
pretty falling leaves come down
my flowers will bloom
Death need not be feared,
it’s in the nature of life:
seasons come and go:-
Seek a saintly life,
from your spring to your autumn;
always in God’s grace:-
In labors of love,
be in nature’s healing grace:
seeking saintly death:-
ON SUNDOWN
On sundown romantic twilight to follow.
Met your dreamy looks in amorous glow.
My bubbling blood
just rushed in flood.
Since then my love in continuous flow.
A Taquilla worm,
revives taste buds it never had.
Close your eyes,
grip the edge of the bar,
think no harm,
slug it all down,
smile with your bottom lip.
Outside the evening
is crawling along
a drainpipe of sinking sun.
You should go home
but the lamp in your head
is already flickering,
so you order another worm.
Sundown came fast,
the fat Blue Heeler
lolling under the low picket fence
suddenly jerked his head up
as if someone had turned the lights out.
A startled Magpie scuttled over the hedgerow
maybe thinking it would be lighter on this side,
it wasn't,
eventually we all went to bed,
but the dog was dead by morning.
Cotton candy clouds painted and afloat by eminent twilight.
Indeed all I see is such a beautiful pastel sight.
Sunsets are always reminding me everything's alright.
blooms mass in a vase
a vivid get together
days in sun recalled
wild hours of weather
when they were younger so green
remembering scenes
sunset blooms laughing
comparing lovely costumes
in a fragrant room
Summer sunset streams- soon sundown springs-
so splendid, splashing softly, seizing skies.
Surrendering stale sapphire, shaping strings;
surreally setting scenes, soon stirring sighs.
So silently, smoked shadows structure, shape-
spur, sharpen, sunset silhouettes- so stark;
Streaked salmon, saffron, scarlet- showy scape
sets spatial sights supplying sundown spark.
Serenity surrounds- sun sinking slow;
striking sunset stuns, sharing scenic show.
When the smoke ascends, let my passing be
With Some late angels accompanying me
Into the halo of a Splendid sea
And the long-awaited days of eternity.
The Forlorn years had grown quieter,
With every shadow passing their hour
At night, the skies looked even darker
By day I could only hear a faint Twitter.
My benediction lingers as in patience,
And weariness etches upon my face
The grizzled old influence of grace
Ending an age, an epoch with peace
The purple smoke of sundown ascends,
In the winding columns of quieter clouds
I see the days with changing moods
Going down inspiring darkening shrouds.
Memories stay alive while the world goes on
In the sense of another new horizon.
Sundown with her vast silhouette ocean
And the gift of romance and passion.
The waves lapped and rolled together
thrilled with a sense of adventure
my task accomplished, and the serenity gather
to let me go and join the heavenly choir.
Twisted serendipity.
Led to believe
What lies underneath.
Suddenly an epiphany.
Voices are absent,
Faces so tragic.
Lost in the symphony.
Mind’s numb, eyes scarred.
Water dripping from the metal bars.
Big drums, filthy scum.
Fallen prey to the elements.
Irrelevant.
Gone without a trace.
Mind’s first in the race.
I gotta leave before sundown.
Faces staring at me all around,
Gonna drown
In the voices, the people came from out of town.
Loud chimes, petty rhymes.
Fallen prey to the elements.
Irrelevant.
So sick, dazed, blind.
The stars don’t shine; sunshine peeks out.
Lost in the sound.
Lost in the mental, the fabled rebound.
Gotta find myself before sundown
Shadows lengthen eastward
Undulating and shimmering
Now leaning toward
Dusk fast approaching
Offering no extended hours
Where shadows may linger
Now from nightfall until dawn
written September 6, 2021
Sun sinks, sky spurs to plum
Day waning, night quaint glum
Faint clouds, setting blazing
Time hands squirm in mud string
Birds in shape, flying low.
Their bright amber eyes glow.
Written: August 17, 2021
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