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Meditation

               Meditation In twilight times the balance in between The beauties of the sweet is tinged with dim Blue homage muting thoughts of sadder sheen. The weight of twilight fills the heart’s wide brim With happiness expressed with darker dreams. A color mild...

Twilight, Midnight, Morning

Twilight, Midnight, Morning Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The sunset settles on the copper breast, Its black point speckles, and the cascade fall Of dark enamel down the sunlit chest. The first to...

Gone

               Gone Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A smouldering in the core of ribcage bones Is what his heart is causing.  Blood does not Allow an outbreak, flames of red.  The zones Of marrow in...

Relief

               Relief The roses come.  He does not think of you. Their pinks are far too delicate, their reds Too overwhelming, and their whites too true. He does not think of you and cuts their heads. The peonies arrived.  Their petals are Too perfect, fine, and...

Japanese Epiphanies

      Japanese Epiphanies Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Sardines have sunlight shining their eyes And, from the scales along their sides, the light Is light as from divinity.  Each dries Here hanging...