cross night’s black velvet
I ride upon the dragon’s
back of golden scales
fiery breath my guide
shooting star to those below
mythic tale begins
I ride the dragon
29 Oct 2012 Leave a comment
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Taste the rain
27 Oct 2012 Leave a comment
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taste it on the air
the mother’s ungent perfume
even deep in dream
smell earth newly damp
by rain fall on parched brown ground
grass and flowers sleep
This old shirt
25 Oct 2012 Leave a comment
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once new this old shirt
frayed but still a favorite
weave of memories
sand between my toes
cabo sun and moonlit nights
perfect summer love
Seasons come and go
24 Oct 2012 Leave a comment
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simple notebook pen
soliloquy on the page
journal diary
a day once removed
to march cadence on blue lines
fill each empty page
siphoning angst hurt
experience clears the mind
for new adventure
summer’s page turned
winter now takes center stage
spring waits in the wings
Golden rain of leaves
23 Oct 2012 2 Comments
in Blog 365 Challenge, Haiku times 2, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, Poetry
aerie, eyrie, perch
leaves float on unseen breezes
I sit pen in hand
wanting to capture
it all on the page but words
cannot hold the wind
My aerie is my place on the second floor of a 4-plex located in a colorful Southside neighborhood. It is a small town within the larger town that is Birmingham. My balcony as well as my studio/office have a view of the street below.
I write here, paint here and yes sometimes I just watch the parade of life below. My desk sits in front of a window, so I can ignore the mess as I work and look out at the view. My view is a large tree whose branches are a stone’s throw away where birds come and stare at me as much as I stare at them. The street below is quiet with the occasional. Squirrels run from neighborhood cats; occasional joggers run by morning and evening, young children and university students come and go from school, cars leave for work in the morning and come home in the e
vening
From my aerie, I watched the leaves, a golden yellow rain fall in flurries from the tree out front. Nature parades past my window, seasons come and go, rain, snow, trees go from barren to green to a rain shimmering autumn leaves carried on the wind leaving them bare once again.
No words of mine can do them justice. Catch the rain and the wind, try without end.
Warm cold night
20 Oct 2012 Leave a comment
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faded silk pjs
warm me this first cold fall night
wind blown leaves still cling
I hear their rattle
beyond the open window
left in summer’s wake
Words and flame
11 Oct 2012 Leave a comment
in Blog 365 Challenge, Haiku times 2, Poetry
we laid the altars
gathered in circle cast words
calling down the moon
elements each their
own direction power rides
every word and flame
2012 Poleshift
10 Oct 2012 Leave a comment
in Blog 365 Challenge, Haiku times 2, Poetry
earth – its third motion
aperiodic third move
over balanced spills us all
the wyse prepared us
against barbaristic lapse
prophet’s twenty twelve
Gentle bonds
09 Oct 2012 Leave a comment
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I would like to leave
walk or drive but I cannot
because she cannot
I would run away
but I must stay gentle bonds
like bands of steel bar
my way unbroken
porcelain doll midst it all
at long last she sleeps
When do you let go
08 Oct 2012 Leave a comment
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outside my aerie
the tree holds tight its withered
leaves loathe to face frost’s
bitter bite unclothed
unbecoming rags belie
her grace hold no warmth
deny the natural
order of nurture for spring
usurped by a shroud
Perle Champion 