shattered frowns

See WDC’s "The Cleave Poem"  for details concerning the structure of this poem.

cast outside the shuttered box I color a forest of dead elms
stark images stain my fingers while this happiness scatters frowns
the rain washes my hope that rainbows exist somewhere
one day you will return home carrying back my love’s shadow
you have always been a photograph which has yellowed with my half-century of years
yet my dreams were made after larks sang nightly in the highest branches
to be quartered like winter deadwood making magic souvenirs for my children

scattering frowns
[2009.26.2…b]
A Cleave Poem

after Northernwrites ’s line “outside the shuttered box”

Made up of the following poems, each respectively the first half and second half of each line.

1)
cast outside the shuttered box
stark images stain my fingers
the rain washes my hope that
one day you will return home
you have always been a photograph
yet my dreams were made
to be quartered like winter deadwood


2)
I color a forest of dead elms
while this happiness shatters frowns
rainbows exist somewhere
carrying back my love’s shadow
which has yellowed with my half-century of years
after larks sang nightly in the highest branches
making magic souvenirs for my children