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Scattered leaves with poetic imprints
Rated: 18+ | Book | Inspirational | #1489243
"Scattered leaved with poetic imprints. My new collection of poetry. Four years already!
P.(tree)Log



Here's my newest collection of poetry. An ongoing collection. My silly port has too many static items with no reviews, and it will do no one any good to have 800 items in the next six months. So, books of poetry are my latest idea. No more "formal reviews" of individual poems, but I'm getting used to that!

Enjoy.

Yeah, I should have used a bit more ML. One day, after my prince has come, and gone, I'll truly decorate this place...

Yeah, promises.
I'm filled with them.
(I keep a lot of them, you know...)
(at least I try and I usually remember them...)
March 30, 2012 at 5:54am
March 30, 2012 at 5:54am
(...the awakening...)
calf cramp screams
seamless sleep thus suddenly creased
hobble back and forth
cringe, supplicate, swear
pummel, massage, curse louder
then the second untimely plague
latent fairy dust gifts a spell of snorting, sneezing
in pairs, triplets, lost count in the wake
play dead, sit in a chair, stare at the wall
puffy, rheumy eyes, nose a fountain
sheets are drenched, cold as a coffin
impossible to imagine their former comfort
dizzy uneasiness renders everything immobile
like the dead eternal rest, a cozy nest
if sleep is part were still on the slate
now famine claims a plate, a mug from a kitchen raid
hovering back to spoil the snack
a fleeting image of gnomes captured Morpheus
speaking rhyming riddles in Cyrillic hieroglyphs
out damned spot, bloodied Spock
Ophelia, not Uncle Vanya, declaims "I am Puck"
spinning, clinging, infringing
internal folly stopped at three-fifty, nothing else starts
the night had a host of hazy stories
almost forgotten in the barrenness
of this starless and sunless morning
brimming, like a cauldron, with sleepless inactivity


tempestuous wake
[2012.30.3...a]
March 29, 2012 at 5:26pm
March 29, 2012 at 5:26pm
(...before sleep...)
rambunctious wind sprites have returned, swinging with Puck-like sauciness
against window panes, clanging metal chimes and rickety wooded bridges
in noise-laden imitations of splash-fallen ricocheting rocks in a gurgling river

the rain certainly invades somewhere else, redundant like thunder
fields for food cry out and cringe against the onslaught of desert-like blistering
not to be offset by the turmoil of water crashing from black clouds
indeed they swerve too quickly along unchartered cardinal points
to unleash their fury, these impatient goblins of whirling havoc

dreamland will be a blustery wilderness with symphonic restlessness
yet I will sleep well...



lullaby
[2012.29.3…a]

March 28, 2012 at 5:11pm
March 28, 2012 at 5:11pm
following the winds
I am drowning
in a small corner of the sky
where the moon sinks behind cloud slivers
its intensity scatters briefly 
no sadness possesses the night
confident
it remembers birdsong
blue and golden warmth
and shares the wind so joy may cavort between hearts
my friends walk on desert sands
on edge-of-globe islands
in countrysides where trees outnumber men
I am this window's unique homing pigeon
I have honed the art of waiting into my own still life mirror
while night and day alternate their shimmering smiles
someday loneliness will implode
I will fly free
follow each wind's destination
and breathe without fear for the first time



to take wing
[2012.28.3...a]
March 26, 2012 at 6:02pm
March 26, 2012 at 6:02pm
(...observations...)
rosebuds have not yet begun to open
my cup is half filled with cold tea
in the steaming sunlight, dust flutters as a gnat suffers
capture in a gossamer web spun between thorns
elbows grate on bread crumbs from the table
I wait patiently for a single white petal


spring patience
[2012.26.3...a]
March 20, 2012 at 11:06pm
March 20, 2012 at 11:06pm
sleepless
I witness the monotonous blackness of night
where is this quaintness called sleep?
starlight, hidden by the city, should be the backdrop of dreams


insomnia (take 327)
[2012.21.3...a]
March 19, 2012 at 5:37pm
March 19, 2012 at 5:37pm
(...a new small stone...)
red sunlight leaves dusty stains on a shimmering path between the rooms
adieu from the west sweeps through in a slow kaleidoscope waltz


sunset on a Monday
[2012.19.3...a]
March 18, 2012 at 5:35pm
March 18, 2012 at 5:35pm
improvisation
catch it now before brandy erases the ping
improvise the harmonies
dark evening sky surrounds my soul's
fledging need for the sting of drama
prepare tonight's bedtime stories
to be shared with the cat's purring
everything

even this minute

is a prélude to dreams
casting songs on banana split carnaval floats
wind chimes tame midnight's approach
do not chastise my hunger for novelty
it is encased in words no one will remember


even this minute
[2012.18.3...a]

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