The darkness calls Carol’s name
Sweeps her into its arms
Cradles her with softness
Swaddles her with layers
Night's tender touch tucks her in
Calling her yet ~ Carol, Carol …
dawn swaddles snow tears
melted against a child's tracks
like sketched fingerprints
[00:26, 08/02/2025] evrod samuel: figure me this
figure me that
whisper of a cloudy past
and im into that
poised to linger in reliving make believe
any spare time for reverie
is comfort
that swaddles me
peace are you really in my past ?
am i stuck here
and treating it as a wholesome repast ?
loop of overthinking
where will you let me off
do i benefit from being so steadfast
and always lost in unsure thoughts
the rigidity of the past
offers sincerity
it happened
it was
its where im glued
Start of daylight summer.
Standing clouds do scatter.
Sun shines through raindrops, sail.
Smell of rain wet spatter.
Swaddles nature sitting.
Stunning rainbow it spins.
12/8/2024
Sunny days of amber
Start daylight summer.
Skyline clear, veils of clouds' scatter.
Sunshine silhouettes placid and plenty
Sustain vivid space for dreaming beauty.
Sparrow sisters spirit chirp,
Scene engaging melody urp.
Semi-aquatic bullfrogs sing a cappella
Sight of festy aerial dragonfly’s gala.
Serendipity cast most timely,
Spontaneous lavish rain sublimely.
Smell of rain swaddles Nature finely.
Scintillating wet spatter collaborative.
Sun shines through raindrops weave,
Seamless hues, stretch of favorite colors mark,
Symbolic eternal life rainbow arc.
6/19/2024
Nativity's Wings
Nativity spreads white wings
In a triumphant yell of grace
Mercy's advent
Swaddles teardrops
Into everlasting joy.
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. . . smooth shades secretly serenade,
blush and blend, to send vivid vivacity.
- a masterpiece in the making -
like a painter posing with a palette,
matching the mood
of cream and Burgundy
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Summer shimmers, sharing a savory sweetness,
the sultry Saturn sunrise, swaddles a Sangria sunset
____________
Fall, into me,
beyond the ambiance of Autumn
________________________
like the poised position,
of a poet with a pen,
simply sculpting shapes;
softly scribbling shadows within
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A romantic/seasonal scribble
- Fall into my love, the love and mood of the season -
Perhaps both
My Muse
This muse – personal trainer of my pen,
This restless spirit pacing in imagination’s sanctuary,
Gathers fleeting moments into anticipation’s tabernacle
Swaddles divine laughter, brooding gloom and holy fire
With scented leaves from her perfumed garden
Hallowed space clothed in inspiration
Where my love and loss embrace in genesis
Shooing away paralyzed procrastination
To transcend into creation lyrics and lines
In a cloistered hermitage of rhymes and rhythms
Drifting through defiant midnight in dopplers
With ultrasound colors of fading rainbows
Like pinpoints of ice or fleeting romantic dews -
Drawn from vaults of the eternal’s benediction –
Waking my insomniac meditations
So in my deafness I may hear her abiding presence,
In mystical and magic lines like prisms glow
Follow through
Dusky passages of visions
Poetic shame tattooed in rust
Enthralled by
Her faceless sacred songs played in my heart
So we join hands
Then lift our tousled words in nude prayers and pleas
In the unbroken sacramental circle of life
Cried to the four winds, seas and oceans
To praise the infinite everlasting.
1-4-23
spring bows to summer
spring bows to summer
long nights give way to daylight ~
footprints on the sand
cold days nod to warmth
days comes early then leave late ~
shooting star pizzazz
frost curtseys to dew
empty fields burst with blossoms ~
bird songs fill the dawn
tree buds smile with leaves
barren limbs expand with life ~
forest greenness thrives
moonlight swaddles night
moon shadows dance in rondeaus ~
summer bows to spring
6-8-22
A Shout into the Void
A shout into the colorless void between Eden and exile,
Between exile and eternity,
By the eternal hero
Like faith leaping milestones from the lion’s head
In the conjugal joining of Heaven’s sighs
In Hosanna’s Glorias
In the midnight where my wandering spirit
Leaves no footprints in blank shadows
Now no room in this vacuum for nothing
But the triumphant yell of grace.
Mute words once swallowed
A living exclamation point
To punctuate a tiny cry
From the jewel of the creator’s creation
Shattering emptiness
In a wink from the everlasting Genesis
Anticipation in waiting
Leaping into my fractal space
To catch my hurtling free fall
Into bottomless vast valleys of lost gravity.
Nativity spreads white wings
In expressions of prophetic prophecy
Between two distant edges
Devoid of destination and of definition,
Only silhouettes of fleeting emptiness,
Until
Mercy’s advent
Swaddles teardrops turned into crystal gems
Of everlasting joy
Echoing in the shattered void.
12-27-21
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Theme chosen: A shout into the Void
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Rope cuts into my bare feet
Wary as I tread the line
The end stretches farther than I can see
My eyes veer down
Expecting to find the ground miles beneath me
But all I see are sheets
The boulders below are just a pillow cradling my neck
The humid air wrapping itself around my body,
whipping as I try to keep myself stable,
is a blanket that swaddles my aching bones
Panic sets into the bones
I fear that I will fall
Yet there is nothing to fall into
I could dive in but never crash
The impact comes in shaking shoulders
Splitting head with no blood to show for it
Forehead against the bedrock
All I feel is agony as I nestle in and fall asleep
Minuscule sapphire blooms,
timid starlight eyes
verdant foliage swaddles,
exquisite, elegant sight
tranquil, serene, meadows
flamboyant petals play
vibrant, petite, bouquets
baring messages to relay,
soothing mother's anguish,
in sorrow, you're not alone
dainty flowers cradle,
words they cannot say
Baneful, manufactured decay
eerie, drab, atmosphere swaddles
stone walls wail, briny dismal tears
stagnant puddles, linger upon
ruinous, dreary, derelict paths
rancid foul stench, squalid minds
unlit musk, dank, tunnel conceals
societies obsolete, unruly
observing eyes, close in secret
quivering hands, steady weary stance,
shrieks echo through, high pitched whistles
malicious pit whines, engulfed in greed
screams absorbed, through murderous throat
stealing adrift shadows, to feast
fleeing terror, quavering legs sprint
stumbling towards, sunlight caress
as church bells chime, Sunday's hymns
Moon darkness falls on the streets of muse,
Its royal veil of lilac amorous hues.
Drawn to submissive embrace wind-tee base
Love weave lacey quintessence grace.
Flaxen way paves a world that swaddles me,
Poised a wide tide to guide the love of thee.
Suffuse in rolling mirth, night passionate dreams
Etched in memory silken honey beams.
Dry crimson leaves fumble as moonlight dance
Beneath calm of trees as we're lost in blushing trance.
Drifting off in the depth of flowering cherry tree
Finding warmth in forgotten summer beauty of love's glee.
Wind puffs its lips tussle autumn initiative
Leaves awakening us from our melodic recitative.
9/25/2020
Leaving her blue salty home,
she emerges from the sea
changing her fish tail into human legs
within the times of the full moon.
Her bare figure exposed;
long auburn tresses swaddles her frame
as she walks silently on the sandy beach
to dance like a maiden of charm.
Reaching out to touch the wings
of the seabirds as they cry
breaking the silence of the moonlit night.
Embedding and feeling every grain of sand
between her toes, as waves ebbs, and flows behind;
she waits in the hopes to purchase a glimpse
of her lover not knowing within the ocean depth
he and his ship rests at the bottom of the sea.
9/22/2019
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