Violet dawns

The deep boom of great man's throat

Chest like a drum grows tight

Like lips from fright purse in frail line

Battle cry born in mountain's womb, now heard

In hammering of curve'd swords and pikes

Grow long shadows; sharp the battle cry

Emerald oceans and swimming wheat dance

Beneath the metal-clad percussion feet

Black dress flows like water as she spins

Her centrifugal motion drawing eyes of

Daffodil and dawn, rays alight in her

Drops and onyx crystals of war scatter

Wild trees spring up gnarled and dark

And they dance like men to beating drum

Purple, misty chaos stretches, repsoseful

Across fetal forest, and the light will die

(3/30)

The weak crawled out from among the weeds

The weak crawled out from among the weeds

Ragged breaths rattle. shrill, in bony cage

No eye nor ear found worthy cries to heed

Pine-footed forest ne'er a man has freed

Until the gasping fires come to rage

The weak crawled out from among the weeds

Rusty palms and fingers shake from greed

Dear Shame, no stories spill upon the page

No eye nor ear found worthy cries to heed

Shadowed knees shake and knock and bleed

Begging for a word from earthly sage

The weak crawled out from among the weeds

Sin and filth are now the only seeds

Of any throne of prince or king, this age

No eye nor ear found worthy cries to heed

Noble line broke his back among the reeds

While lonely women forget their timely wage

The weak crawl out from among the weeds

No eye nor ear found worthy cries to heed

(3/29)

Green flutes

The jagged edges

Jutting outward, reaching up

Praising yellow sky

Winds tickle branches

Makes green flutes from every leaf

Sing sad melodies

Crunch! Apple's crisp flesh

The sweetest blood dripping down

Waters thirsty ground

Bumblebees dancing

Lost in loving, violet blooms

Nectar fills the cup

Wave's foamy fingers

Grip the coral throat, lifting

From the seaweed depths

Dewdrop crystal orb
Slides down wayward blade of grass
Brook giggles, rippling

(3/28)

Saudades*

The scent

Travels on the listless breeze

Transporting my soul

To another place

Distant, yet closest of all

(3/27)

*Saudades (sau.da'.jeez) - Portuguese word;
the feeling of something reminding one of home
or invokes the missing or ache for a known
and distant place

Overlooked

"Maybe," she said,

"But probably not."

Icy emptiness poured over

The jagged outcroppings

Rent from the former

Wholeness of her mind

(3/26)

Stolen walls and ceilings

As teeth sharpen Earth’s crystal dome

Tears leak from orange pots of clay

I crumple under sighs for shattered home

Shackled to my heritage, I roam

Underbrush and thorny roots shall play

As teeth sharpen Earth’s crystal dome

Nighttime wonders swallowed in green foam

Forgotten warriors drown in friendless fray

I crumple under sighs for shattered home

Furrowed, shadowed foreheads groan

Ankles pierced by snares roll stones away

As teeth sharpen Earth’s crystal dome

Black eyes relinquish rivers, chrome

The backs of sun-dark lost ones sway

I crumple under sighs for shattered home

Weep and scream with the forest, alone

No home in love or sight or day

As teeth sharpen Earth’s crystal dome

I crumple under sighs for shattered home

(3/25)

Mistress Rain

Ivory knives pierce the skins of reddened grapes

Juices burst, Earth's fertile life-blood

That intoxicates caressing fingertips and

Slips down the sides of her marble waist

The wild grass and wheat braid themselves

Into her dark, lustrous tresses; bold and aloof

Her eyes are inescapable pools of honey

Cotton-white blossoms, plucked from

Verdant forests, bleed endlessly

Viscous and hearty drops of crimson dew

Brave saplings, clothed in ashes

Peek out from with the frosty womb

Like her snow-kissed cheeks above the

Early morning stirrings; the bluebird and

Finch make their nests amongst the dry

Bark and tender spring stars

Narcissus wave lazily, beckoning her

With golden arms and silver voices

And she begins to laugh as the fawns

Scamper across the lines of her nose

Leaving careful, acorn hoof-prints

(3/24)