Getting older day by day
Sunrise, coffee, chat, hurray
Smiles, news, regrets and wins
Things to do and former sins
April 17, 2024
TELEGRAM FOR MASTER B - EPHEMERA
January fourteenth nineteen forty six. Hooray, I’m eight today.
Dad still serves in India, four thousand miles away.
I’d barely recognize him if he walked in through the door.
For he had sailed away from us when I was only four.
A ring at the doorbell, I run to see.
“A telegram for Master B.” Who’d be sending one to me?
I read it, “Happy birthday son,
God bless you and everyone.”
Signed at the bottom, “With love from Dad.”
The best birthday greeting I ever had.
A piece of paper, worth nothing at all.
But it takes pride of place in a frame on the wall.
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When The Silence Speaks a Little Too Loud
You gaze upon your blackened Moon
Wishing upon fading stars
~~~
He burnt down timeless bridges
For their times were done and through
Daily he'd reach out to obsolete frames of a body
One that used to be there, almost always
Could his echoes resonate into the lands beyond her
Echoes of cries of losers and wishers
Once, he could boast of all the Magic of Life
Now each Sunrise is a caption of a memory fading
He lit a fire, and played 'round it for its jolly
He ended up with a blackened heart and a charred dream
T'was as of Coldplay's loss of something you couldn't replace
Love gone to waste
"Come back to stand tall - to stand straight
Boast of the heroics of your letting go - and its redemption
But in the face of the mirror and in solitude
Pull off the mask and sink back into your sands of regrets"
"Stars came out again each night
And it was easy to pick out any
But it was only until He found a favorite
That one cloudy evening made a difference too many"
The Sun stayed on for too long
Now The Night is not coming anymore
The Night is gone
~~~
Chibéle
His mother was in the kitchen
There came a knock upon the door,
It was a policeman, with a telegram
She buckled to the floor.
Of course, she knew what it meant
But could scarce believe it true,
For every night, she'd prayed aloud
"Lord, see him safely through"
Her dearest boy, young and brave,
Sought glory overseas,
As he left for France she sobbed,
"Take care, come back to me"
But her dearest boy isn't coming home
For he had paid the price,
He fell out there on the front.
His future sacrificed.
Off he'd marched, with his pals,
heroes, every one.
Now they lay on Flanders fields,
Each a mothers son.
No victory parades for them,
No medals pinned to chests.
But never to be forgotten,
As with the Lord, they rest.
miracles at night
flluorescent rainbowed sky
we can't be on earth
February 22, 2016
Sponsor: Nathan D
The window of cloud
Where hills kiss both sea and sky
Your lovely eyebrows
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rainbow at twilight
shimmering northern lights glow
Monet paints our skies
(Contest:Instant Telegram
Sponsor: Nathan D - was contest never judged)
Submitted to any poem written in Feb 2016
Sponsored by Laura Loo
02~19~16
INSTANT TELEGRAM:
lime palm of Atlas
cushions Demeter’s red rage…
fallow fall farmland
beyond earth's vacuum...
satellite wheel captures light
of galactic forms
Instant Telegram Contest, Nathan D.
picture 1
2/19/2016
it speeds on darkened fields
as rushed breeze watches black horse--
catching night's first stars
Contest :Instant Telegram, Nathan
19th Feb 2016
Windmill slowly turns
fuel remains dormant in earth
scientific blow
2/18/16
God's telegram
aurora appears suddenly
divine interpretation needed
View the mountain peaks,
So majestic in the sky.
Climbing a great feat.
Poetry Title: Instant Telegram
Poetry Contest Deadline: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 12:00:00 AM
Sponsored by: Nathan D.
Contest Description:
Haiku poetry form : 5, 7, 5.
earth's splendor wakens
aurora borealis
empty vessels filled.
entry for Nathan D.... Instant Telegram haiku contest.
heartbeat hammering
not looking back at treason
carried by the wind
2/16/2016
Poetry Contest: Instant Telegram -
Sponsored by: Nathan D.
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