Day Dreams

the sun woke slowly

rubbing her eyes

yawning, smiling

remembering the dreams

she dreamed through

the dark night

dancing with orion under

the milky way and

partying with seven sisters

on the red planet

dreams of love songs

played by lyra that

she holds in her heart

as she journeys

across the sky

After The Fall

The yellow brick road is

Full of weeds

No one believes in the

Wonderful Wizard or

His magic any longer

Glenda and the Wicked

Witch have opened a

Cafe in downtown Oz

Dorothy has abandoned

Her ruby slippers and

Started a rescue farm

For Flying Monkeys

Only Toto remembers

The way home

Prodigal Roar

The grieving, prodigal moon

is roaring, rushing through the

night light-

ing candles trying

to find treasure hidden

by the sun

longing to learn the

secrets of heat and fire

Tent Dwellers

mesh tents

hang

cemented in forks

of a choke cherry

their prevalence a

sign of springs arrival

the morass of squirming

life inside emerges like

reporters spilling from

a courtroom

they amble

down

a

silken

gangway

in a caterpillar kind

of follow-the-leader

to search for tasty leaves,

aquiver as bird shadows

cover them

and I glibly pass by with

no sonder

(posted in response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle # 61)

Peace Remains

image

I traced secrets on

the shores of your heart

words of hope, of fear

and broken dreams are

scratched into the sandy

beaches

I wait for foaming

swells of love

to erase the pain

each

one

swept away

until all

that remains

is

peace

Times Change

there’s

nothing

like it now

no eskimo

walrus or guitar man who can pen like

Zimmy did in those hazy days of youth

the ships have sailed

come on in

nothing’s

new

Beemahal

Bumbles whirring, blurring,

strirring look for nectar

spewing blossoms

Fill up sackles strapped

to legs

furry with delightful

pollen

Take to flighty heights of

splendor

to the queenie waiting

for them

in the cells of Beemahal