A little glimpse into my heart. Your comments are welcome at the link below. The other link below (NaPoWriMo 2022) will take you to the 30 poems I wrote for National Poetry Month's a poem a day challenge.
All day the sun had danced on these fledgling waves
jagged hillocks gleaming like rumpled silk
limning the peaks and valleys the ridges and folds with silver glints of fire.
Now as the sun retreats to gild the hills
the waves rekindle its fevered touch
tamping it down to drown in fathomless depths
Swallowing it whole to sink below wrinkled water
to resurface as hammered silver jewels A burning grace
it sits on the tongue
coats it sunny yellow
buttery melt lusciously sweet
it licks the back of bare knees
a puppy kiss of ticklish bliss
mornings it teases the lips
tingles them pink
savory sip potently deep
middays it warms the arms
with azure breeze
breathily etched, sunnily fresh
twilight it bedazzles the eyes
in winking skies
shimmery swing radiantly bling
it babbles it sings
it chimes it rings
this flagrant fragrant chorus we sing happy
emerald womb, wet, fecund,
seizing sun’s fertile light
grazing roots of thought, soft,
tendrils glazing duckweed floats
quickening flow of blood and dew
to open our throats like the Pacific chorus frogs
who burp songs where they sit
and loosen our bent wings to flit and dip
like wrens and wood ducks come to sip
birthed whole and well in this wild
where green sings
in radiant elvish tongue hallowed tune
For I shall take my summer’s ease beside
these trees, whose teasing limbs unscroll to reach
my filigreed railing perched on high,
Their piney fingers teasing, trailing, to beseech
And beckon me to conjure wings and fly
with hummingbirds, goldfinches chickadees, jays.
in raucous, rowdy glee, winging sparks aloft
as we flicker, twitter, glitter the ruckling sky
with sizzling pink, and brilliant blue.
And ignite excite the brooding clouds with blazing hue. Daylight Fireworks
Sneaker-feet poised, tail aloft, she pauses on the top step
Surveying her domain. The space she must conquer.
Eyes slit to sapphire gleam
Jeweled vision engaged
She harnesses lurking breath, bewitches the air.
In a whisker twitch
she launches into the firmament she conjured,
The narrow stairwell stretched to infinite longevity.
Fleet feet winged with feline need.
She descends, traversing space at warp speed superluminal impulse
and propels her nine pounds of boundless bundled gravity into the oak door
Wham.
Sleek tail curled in the shape of satisfaction
She sashays away
Surveys her domain Conquered.
Twilight.
All ashes and ache,
I hover beneath the loose blue lake of sky.
where crow wings sing like slick of oars
And fireflies light their goblin torches, flit and flick
of darkling gleam.
Backlit clouds scull across the sky,
streaming a higgledy-piggledy calligraphy of runes
to untether my scuttled hope and
sweeten my ale to caramel cream.
A gabble of petals, a ramble of leaves, a scramble of stems
blooming full tilt in the vase, drifting sideways, bending, leaning,
loosening leaves, drizzling petals
that soften the table with pastel drifts sweet as first snow
butter cream daisies, blushing roses,
winter white dahlias
stirring the air with the sway of porch swings and
hammocks and rowboats and floating fishing string Summer panorama of motion