I Long for Ocean Bounty

June 28, 2017January 17, 2019 extraordinarysunshineweaverLeave a comment

I long for ocean bounty

Chilled to perfection

For winter slumber.

Where is a mountain

That harbors a cave

For the homeless?

Image: google.com

Audio · Poem · Poetry

I Call to the Dawn

June 28, 2017August 16, 2017 extraordinarysunshineweaver9 Comments

I am wasted by the weather

In a hastened death by wind,

Surrounded by a dream cloud gray,

And made to rest in the rain.

The umber bark of night limbs listen

To my fevered songs of lonely truth,

Which the stars do not grasp in sight,

And I feel for a sign of God.

So I turn to the meadow

And search in the moonlight.

I appease the black bird

To release the white.

At last, I find a tortuous path;

My footsteps deep in fog so thick

That I barely see it nudging me

At my side, the Dawn.

I call to the Dawn

And hold it tenderly.

It opens so softly;

I feel its vast stillness.

I tiptoe silently

Through and beyond

Each misty droplet

On its dewy plain.

Then as my hand slices

Its crystal breath,

I reach to kiss

The morning haze.

Image: https://www.pixelstalk.net/foggy-forest-backgrounds-free-download/

Audio · Ekphrastic Poetry · Poem · Poetry

Mother Oak, Mother Time

June 28, 2017November 4, 2017 extraordinarysunshineweaverLeave a comment

Mother Oak, Mother Time
Your canopy a home.
In the shade of outstretched arms
Dressed in moss,
Your girth sustains us.
In sun and storm, we cling to you
And pray in your shadow,
stretching to the stars.
As we sit for your truth
Of births, of deaths,
Of flags fallen and flags raised,
Of your bounty to friend and foe.
Your roots gorged with stories,
Your heavy limbs, laden with food,
We come to you.

Image: https://www.monumentaltrees.com/en/trees/liveoak/liveoak/