Sunday, October 31, 2021

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

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

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

Tuesday, October 05, 2021

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

 

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