Still the aftermath
Trees reach tall and wide, like We-
That is All-she wrote.
Painting by George Hayter (1792-1871), 'After the Storm' c. 1833 in Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
Still the aftermath
Trees reach tall and wide, like We-
That is All-she wrote.
Painting by George Hayter (1792-1871), 'After the Storm' c. 1833 in Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
June thunderstorm
barrels thru
Humid-but isn't that wet
Anyway-All the little
People say "Climate Change"
But isn't the climate always
Changing-
People in a room,
Stars that collide and
Rainbows that break the mirror of
Sky,
as night and day
do not feel the
Same.
Never before is not impossible
or infinity imploding
As in a
Cause to worry,
never fear
the constant Change
passes thru.
Painting by Samuel Palmer, 'Summer Storm near Pulborough, Sussex ' c. 1851 in Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Forget and forgive
Not the other way
Forward
Better to apologize
than ask for
Permission
Make sense
Of a million censors
One raises
Voices
But acts alone.
There was a time
of day
that just felt right
Now
is a different Time.
The sun sets
the sun rises
all the Same.
Image of Artwork credited by (Scan by NYPL), 'Sunrise or Sunset on Lake Champlain, NY' in Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Sometimes she speaks
Others...
Don't listen to her
How she doesn't know
What she says
Before...
She thought
They could hear
Her thoughts
filled with speech a-
loud voice
You could tell...
Image credit User:Zmaj, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Today,
Two years ago
To this day,
I drove away
For good
has never sounded
So Appropriate
Into fate
As it were,
As it would be
Left behind
Behind me
Now,
I drive on paved paths
In the dark
Streets
only silver linings
Guide
The way.
Photo by Author Kelly Sikkema, Unsplash title 'As far as you can see' Dated 13 January 2017, Location: Fenton, United States
There was nothing left
for me to do except take him to the edge
of land
and see if he notices
what is missing
would he read the horizon lines
and turn the page?
Together we watched the boats
come and go
at the mouth
of the harbor
saying nothing
of directions
like wind and gaze.
The further we went on
drifting by degrees away,
where the edge becomes and end
before us
anyway, a moment of stillness
Arose
to this occasion
of reading-
The End.
Painting by Winslow Homer (1836-1910), 'Chindren on the beach' c. 1873 in Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
This one body
of water
This one me,
one drop in a sea-
where matter makes
greater than one
me and
to see a body-
Like mine
drenched in spirit
like the One
This is some thing
only I can feel
this one reality
of a Being
that changes
less or more
and more or less
by blood and water
when every thing is
Exposed
Nothing is just
itself.
Image by Dietmar Rabich / in Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons / “Wassertropfen -- 2021 -- 8024” / CC BY-SA 4.0.
Water Today, warm raindrops glass blurs, the blurry glassy, sharp sparkles sugar. Behind Evening, it was good. Leaves all turned into shadow...