Prayer of Gratitude to a Ginkgo Leaf (poem 020-2021)

 

 

 

 

O holy leaf

You got me

Caught my eye

My everything else

Hailed arrested halted

My step my gaze my self

Your indescribable yellow

Pale skin fanned

Out in greeting

O holy raindrop

Eyeing my eye

Soaked in sight

Stilled and solemn

Waiting for my now

To bow

Before you

O holy moment

Bathed in mist

O holy this

Almost missed

Faith (poem 019-2021)

I can't see the veins

In that beech leaf

Across the street

Shimmering slightly

A subtle sashay

X-rayed by the rays

Of afternoon blaze

In late October

You know the brand

Of that light

And you know

That song

Veins and all

Don't you

down the aisle (poem 018-2021)

bathed in this

moment's movement

swathed in sun

light on our feet

your arm in the crook

of my elbow

shepherding us 

all so surely

smiles alight

autumnal flames 

unquenched

this now

no other

but this

one

until

eternity