I. gate in the dark

there is no one here, in this gloming dim, for me to ask of her or him, where the road leads next, why those leaving have left, just mist-laden pines full-circumspect, whispering, psithuring, silent and still.

Awake

Awake With the blessing of the sun’s gentle caress And the sound of your warm breath I love you Alive With the freshness of morning’s first kiss the first of the days inspired wish Inspired To sing from the mountain top In the glow of…

Hour one, image prompt a Shakey start

I knew not where I traveled When I took upon the road The path was lit by moonlight Through clouds it barely showed And although I had forever Although I had the time I knew Charon asked a price Something not yet mine Ah I…

September

Sapphire Evenings Peacefully Trusting that Everything is Miraculous. Love Believes and is Empowering. Restore faith.

“Two sides of the road”

Along the quiet, Of quite a night…  I see a light in-between, That keeps the two sides of the road alive. Somehow, it seems to nod us to go, Perhaps, a stranger’s “Hello”. It soon becomes clear in a vision, A tiny house all alone….

Hour 1 – Checkpoint (image prompt)

Checkpoint Taking turns sleeping and driving the cool darkness is welcoming – foreboding thrilling Tall pines shadow the road shadow our escape shadow our past, passing around us As we slip beneath the radar freeing, finally Until The Checkpoint Its warm light deceiving silent already,…

Uncloaking

“Uncloaking”   the past draped about us like a cloak*  heavy and wet from the years   the smell ~ both of home, and the strange scent of fear of letting go of change   laden my shoulders with a weight I can no longer…

The Dark Abandon – Hour One

The Dark Abandon   He lives alone in the dark abandon Dim lights and trees surround An empty shell of a heart in tandem With grief and loss abound He cries at night, although none can hear him No moon, no stars, no sky A…

Poem for Hour One (1/24)

Lazy revolutions at thirty-thousand feet, Waiting for news of lives since past, Catching only whispers of scent through carved bone.   Long since considered a monster, With great, black cloak, And death reeking upon odd, bald face.   Ugly thing, sitting like plague across deserts,…