Best Poems Written by Melody Hatampa

Capricious Nature

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Capricious Nature
In three parts

I

The Night
Queen,
retires
slowly-
as if the earth 
pauses 
on its axis-
ordering 
the world
to stay quiet,
until,
it is 
good
and ready.

At  last,
morning
bursts in,
like a promise
fulfilled,
falling like bright 
lemon slices
through horizontal
blinds…

Doves,
perch high
on telephone wires, 
COO
coo- cooing.
Dogs,
hunch
over gravel,
New Mexico’s grass-
each consecrating
a new day,
and their territory,
with a devotion 
like heat—
bearing down
on the desert.

II

The day star,
rises  
to its peak,
then
is consumed,
piecemeal,
by shadow-
as if 
on a dimmer switch,
at half mast in mourning—
all 
species,
observing
in a shivering
silence—
but for 
crickets,
who pulse, 
like heart beats
in  pale 
twilight.

Cloud sheets
respond in tandem,
pulling a tent,
taut
against the sky,
doubling over as if straining,
to hold up
the atmosphere.
Glints
of escaping
sunlight,
doggedly reminding 
of what
outlasts.
 
III

In the lingering 
bright hours,
Earth’s
star,
at last
untethered–
from nature’s
whims-
is donned 
by my skin,
like a balm,
restoring 
faith-
each of us
relishing
the last 
of Helios’s
tour,
respiting,
in knowing…
the one 
constant–
resides
at the core-
brilliant
and unflinching,
always 
persisting.

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