Thursday, November 26, 2020

Witch's Broom

 


Whipstitched nebula of filaments

Wandering clouds of dust, ember & gas

We wish

Watchfulness of ravens

Wistful beacon of light from dolphin's eyes

Wellspring of ancient forest billowing in our chests

Weightlessness of wars, words & wounds



NGC 6960 (Witch's Broom Nebula)
Picture credit:  Here


Posted for dVerse OpenLink Night (Live Edition), hosted by Sanaa Rizvi.    Join us when the pub doors open at 3pm EST.  Sanaa will be hosting live for the first  hour via google meet.

Poetry form is Pleiades.  A late entry for the our Poetics Promp, Stars that Count.

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

clarity {goodbye}

 

he has the ocean in his eyes

speckled emerald & sky

watching {her}


spring steps

she holds the forest 


breath

breathing

heartbeats of baby roots, creeks, rocks

& redwood colliding 


to gentle swish-sway of everglades

tilting to where sun

unribs fallen yellow and red maple leaves


in the stillness 

-calibration of wishbones, chances & crossroads-

the answer 

settles on his grey hair, soft bubble of rain-

                                                              drop




Posted for dVerse Poets Pub- Poetics:   Look Into My Eyes, hosted by Mish.   I have responded to the prompt of incorporating the eyes, to my post.

Thanks for the visits and comments.


Monday, November 16, 2020

an impatien(t) rearrangement, i move potted plants

 

from cold draft

to cradled lamp light 

   i (too) am impatient 


for passing of northern wind

shreding black-tarred maple 


leaves to leather-rust 

earth

plots seedpod, rebulbs tubers


(sleep)


womb of possibilities-

   green fingerlings, pink-sunlit crowns,

   petals bee-trimmed in mediterranean 


   hues-

unperturbed by winter's breath


Posted for dVerse Poets Pub - Quadrille, Poem Those Possibles, hosted by De Jackson.   Please join us when the pub doors open at 3pm EST.

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

a witness

 

lockdown  (pause)

the everyday normal


our house, room, walls

is the office & theatre & sports bar


& gym & school & library (& everything else)-

wired & plugged & zoomed


virtual doctor appointments & weddings 

& funerals (& everything else)-


we follow rules under pandemic times

wearing mask was initially a strange abnormality


like fishy, false news, but graph data of rising cases

don't lie


as in votes count in election results

don't lie


i delete

(covididiots marching last weekend) & read

with hope vaccine development news


How to Pronounce Knife

won our 2020 Giller Prize for short stories


i practice on my readings,

rounding my voice to bellowing bells


applause, applause (pause)-

my mind reels back to short dayhours


as yellowing of maple leaves mark

the season change


we (pause)

winter for few days of sun-


shine, spring of birdsongs, magic of colors

blanketing our city up north



20 C in Mississauga City, Nov. 10, 2020


Posted for dVerse Poets Pub - Poetics, Poetry as Witness, hosted by Peter Frankis.

We are enjoying a (rare) warm autumn week.   Thanks for the visit and comments.





Thursday, November 5, 2020

a home edit: blue carrots


Monday is wine

abundunt with spice & plum

i spill on my

tuxedo

pressed for the week


i twirl my glass

for a closer peek on bowl

is it ebony silver, spotted spots of cat

or

is it golden locks of sunflower spires

on cusp

breaking underfoot from oak barrels


i drink to blues, blue 

(breathing)

hours, smoke & symmetry of dead leaves

blue season of poppies & snowflakes


i reach (again)

for my morning medicine 



Posted for dVerse Poets Pub - MTB:  Synesthesia.  We are focusing on colors (grapheme color synesthesia).   The post is about seasonal affective disorder (SAD), which is a type of depression that is related to the changes in seasons.   As a note, I have overcome this and have focused on keeping busy and engaged with poetry.

Join us when the pub doors open at 3pm EST.  

Tuesday, November 3, 2020

November sky is

 

a coarse wrapping paper 

i uncover

with my ink-smudged hands


i expect nothing but bleakness,

faded maple leaves, deadheaded flowers

in this red poppy box


night descends by 5 pm

darkness becomes a womb, 

a church, smell of incense for prayers for the dead-


(less 1 hour, 30 candles)

yet on first day, flicker of frost

whitest of fluff rains down


this is nature's quartet:   winter 

an aperture

where the soul song of maple trees

trills with cries of the geese & gulls-



Posted for dVerse Poets Pub - November Poetics, hosted by Sanaa Rizvi.  We had our first frost in November 1st.   Thanks for your visits and comments.