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The Orange Cat

Posted by e on 02/28/2021
Posted in: Poetry. 4 Comments

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The Orange Cat

 

This place has history

Coffee and floor boards

That floated up one day

When the river ran dry

 

Ancient clapboard strains

That recall the scent of pastels

The rose of palettes, painters

Abandoned by the roadside

 

Air blows in from the gulf

Or is that silken voice

An older one…

These walls can speak

 

Of glittering painted masks

Who’s empty eyes still see

Dolls and befuddled teddy bears

Watching cobwebs wave

 

Of candlelit, flickering corners

Sparking to the blues box

The smoke of phantom rhythms

Stepping to the bridge

 

Of swinging in chorus

As shear curtains sway

In the arms of shadows

Dressed to kill

                                                 

Of feathers and fleece flying

And crumpled sheets and pillow cases

As peppermint begets lavender

And the ayes have it

 

Of laughing in liquid Luna

That wink in the windows

Brushing peach blossoms

With the blush of fruit

 

Of bare feet padding the floor in darkness

The swell of a timeless warmth

As love settles back into bed

Eyes lit in a cigarette’s glow

 

Of breaths turning in whisper’s hush

Black velvet, the mist of crepe myrtles

As spirits cakewalk though the house

And the orange cat gives chase

 

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Close Your Eyes

Posted by e on 02/23/2021
Posted in: Poetry. 1 Comment

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Close Your Eyes

 

Puffs of smoke limbo on the levy

A jester with a crown of vines

That mocking bird plays for snakes

As washboards rapping the blues

Dream these spoons would chance

Again to make the sun dance

And the river rolls on…

 

Trees all awhirl in azure

Lazy clouds leaning, lead

Grape dappled steps to samba

That silver wind swaying

These ancient ways aflame

Guilding the paths waters knew

Before they remembered rain

 

The blessing of Winter’s heat

Air’s kiss to waking flesh

A tongue recalling it tastes

That soars towards light

On wings bells tolled

When they could ring no more

Yet dreamt still of song

 

Only these grasses

Tasseled tips waving in gold

Hold my feet to the ground

Only love opens my hands

Palms raised

Eyes closed

For fear of flying

 

One can breathe too much

Oft I’ve heard it said,

Use up those breezes that blow

Drink too much from that well that sings

And court disaster above and below

Cast mountains on these sands while you can

And make of yourself some islands

 

So suckle the milk of tangerine skies

Imagine laughing glasses cracking wise

Drink the mist from a cool hollow still

Places where only the children will

Sip slowly as we in their voices see

The simplest of choices thee

Just close your eyes and be

 

 

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In Down

Posted by e on 02/19/2021
Posted in: Poetry. 2 Comments

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In Down

Drums drums, drums

Fingers drumming

Blood pounding

Voodoo is on the air

Ice ice, ice

Shivers icicle slivers

Skin crawls

Water drips clear

Sky steel blue

A breeze tongues stick to

A collage of frozen cocktails

Shaking in sidewalk chalk

Dream, jungle sleeps

Birds dance in puffy suits

Jealous of barrels burning

Lost along the white way

Winter burns seconds

As heat chills in sanctuary

Trading ashes and sack cloth

For linen, laughter and tears

A frosty clock ticks

Captive the cuckoo counts

Swings of sun winks and shadows

Scudding clouds and moonbeams

Warm buttered breads

Jam, bacon and biscuits

Ovens of steaming flesh await

The tea pot’s whistle

But magic lays thawing

Chimes a silent yawn

As hips sway forgotten

Snuggling still in down

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Lullabies of Illumination

Posted by e on 02/08/2021
Posted in: Poetry. 5 Comments

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Lullabies of Illumination

 

Cars roll bye

As the Jazz plays

Base from the highway thumps

But the bone is missing

Lost to the blare of horns

As skeletal fingers in coat sleeves

Tap those keys just right

 

Sway the breeze elastic

Congestion and beat blending

A color’s dance on simmer

Street the heat spectrum visible

Even the cool awaits that drop

A mist of gathering storm’s sweat

A tympanic talking drum’s conga

 

The calm before my ears ring

That silence begging syncopation

The give and take of heart and feet

Hands breathe skin flushed rhythm

Rhyme no time man scat man scat

Watch me pull a lion out of my hat

With your ears…

 

Ink makes the most lovely tunes

Words the birth of star lit morns

An heir to the accompaniment

Of storms and shadows deep

Asleep as this dreamer reaps

A cosmos of ice and flame

In lullabies of illumination

 

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Near Bayou

Posted by e on 01/20/2021
Posted in: Poetry. 9 Comments

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Near Bayou

 

It is a warm place

This nest I’ve found

Soft and warm

And in tragical disarray

So the leaves of my past

Blend right in

 

Camouflage gone

The color of my feathers

A freak flag flown

The silver of my mane

Asking questions of sandals

A fisherman might have worn

 

I am transformed

By the grace of live oaks

A church of waving mosses

Singing hallelujah and

Taken to the river

To be cleaned

 

A journey past dragons

Through mists and fire

As the ground rumbles beneath

Tip toeing past sleeping giants

Who dream of windmills

and braver men than I

 

But still my wings appear

In time to see the Moon rise

And follow her song to the sea

To a place where the air is new

And the green has unfailing eyes

That catch me looking back

 

There’s a smoke in the trees

Where I come from

A little boy played there

A long time ago

I still remember his face

And his dog

 

I want a dog again

Though the boy can wait 

I’ll never forget him 

As I play an adult

Strollin’ Ole’ Muddy

Cane pole in hand

 

Granted freedom

Blessed of blossom

Borne by the road

I’ve come to rest

On a delta blue

Somewhere, near bayou

 

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Home

We Go On

Posted by e on 12/01/2020
Posted in: Poetry. 11 Comments

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We Go On

 

I set about to write the perfect love poem

One of water’s flow over mossy stones

Near the edges of the waving sedge

Where laughter lay, naming clouds

Till thunder chased us soaking

Splashes through the puddles

To the hayloft in the barn

Where the brood mares

Witnessed our flame

 

A lyrically melodic lullaby

Sunset reflections in portraiture

Our stories a song on butterfly wings

Born from dust, long for flight

 

Turned to light

 

Amethyst and daffodils

Baby oil and bubble bath

Sleepy eyes in candle light

Checking the rise of your breast

 

Snuggle tight in double sighs

Struggle smite as trouble dies

Rubble light our bubble flies

Grasp the moon ‘fore the stars slip away

 

Shoot me if I rhyme

But it’s living time

There’s frost on the bloom

But we’re looking fine

 

Take my hand, kiss the air, look away

 

Bend and sashay

Step two three

Twirl and plie’

Curtsy and flash the air

 

With your eyes

 

I am your slave

And my fingers bleed

But the muse demands

We go on…

 

I light your darkness

As you reflect my flame

Without your cool

 Merely heat, I would remain

 

Fill me…

And I pledge to be forever empty

A vessel for the rivers of you

That which could never be contained

 

So shoot me if I rhyme

But it’s living time

There’s frost on the bloom

But we’re looking fine

 

Take my hand, kiss the air, look away

 

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The Roof Drips

Posted by e on 11/30/2020
Posted in: Poetry. 6 Comments

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The Roof Drips

 

How I miss the Howler Monkey’s roar
The applause of rapturous ferns and dew
Dark rhythms, as hand sized fiddle’s dance
Perchance slip lightly silhouette’s purse strings
And lace curtained chorales of carnivorous stars
As wanton, they lay about lilting lasciviously
Spread out across lavender skies

Every night a different show
Each and every hour
Every minute
Second
now

It’s raining
The roof drips
And on the rattan blinds
Tiny geckos, lounge and slide

 

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Home at Last

Posted by e on 11/15/2020
Posted in: Poetry. 6 Comments

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Home at Last

 

And the winds teach glass to breathe

Singing seconds till you’re sand

Sculpting vistas of your spires

and mounds…

 

In blackness, only pens can tell

Of howling filled with whispers

Taunting at scenes we prayed

The storm would blow away

 

But we are the storm

 

As eyes flash and I count

Till the voices of fell beasts

Lead the windows in prayer

And a second line sweeps me away

 

A line of sand down the street

Stepped in and scattered

At the mercy of horns

Home at last…

 

And the winds teach glass to breathe

Singing seconds till you’re sand

Sculpting vistas of your spires

and mounds

 

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Snapshots

Posted by e on 11/08/2020
Posted in: Poetry. 6 Comments

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Snapshots

 

My thoughts fill with you

Snippets of shuttersped snapshots

Syllogies in silhouette and

Succulent self seductions

Surrendered by candle light

 

Or is it you

 

Are you drumming softly

By the mirror, incense rising

Chanting sylvan love songs

I once whispered in your ear

 

The air is very clear in the darkness

Ragged trees said good bye to leaves

And hello to the sharpness of shadows

Cast full by the moon on winter snow

 

Long has that point lain in earth

As gleam is lost, no longer cut

Though blood makes yet ink

To cover canvas in crimson

 

Trip, I digress as I fall

Or is it flight, and a soaring

For eyes full of hair in the wind

To ride the clouds and then the mist

As we rise among wild flowers

And plunge from the sky

To lay gasping for air

Alive as no other leap

 

Demands

 

Yes, that drumming is very clear now

On the bed, by the mirror chanting

I can see your lips move softly

I am not helpless, but I wish that I was

 

So I light the lamp by my mirror

And the room takes a breath

Ears bent in the darkness

As you flicker behind me

 

In feathers and in lace

You writhe to the smoke

As a song from my quill

That you’ve now made your own

 

A song of shadows and of vapors

Flaming sighs and beaded sweat

Those drops untamed, still tingling

And swimming between breaths

 

To the sea

 

Where maelstrom awaits the faint of heart

And as I am drawn further in, I now know the words

Arms tight around you in the wheel house wailing

“I love you, please be safe, come home soon”

 

I scream as the wind howls in harmony

The intoxication of your dance adding

Liquor to your murmurings and sighs

As we sail the edge of the world

 

Surging

 

And then it calms…

And I can breathe again

Your smile slowly fading

Though your eyes remain

 

My chest is my own again

But it’s contents are yours

I feel your hands in there

Lips bent low chanting

 

My thoughts fill with you

Snippets of shuttersped snapshots

Syllogies in silhouette and

Succulent self seductions

Surrendered by candle light

 

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Among the Stars

Posted by e on 11/06/2020
Posted in: Poetry. 7 Comments

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Among the Stars

 

Wonder and song abound already

And these fingers have yet to touch your face

To cup a cheek’s blush, trail down your neck

And pause…

 

To fall into timeless eyes

As breath becomes

The need of mortals

And then inhales us

 

To join, in the way of oil lamps

And midnight giggles

As stacks of 45s unwind

And we’re young again

 

To waken, as bird coos

A nest, safe and warm

Amethyst dawn…

Ensuring the gem of you

 

Coffee, jam and beignets

Eyes smolder behind bed’s hair

Was that truly us last night

Way up there, among the stars

 

How can a flame so hot, not burn?

 

And the day dream ends…

As eyes open to fumbling hands

Drowsing upon the keyboard, but

Gleaming on the horizon bright

 

You’re still there

 

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