AprilDawn

AprilDawn Apr 2014

Tonight

after dark
had fallen

I stood
in the backyard

the majestic palms
playing
to wind chimes

solar lights
cascading   rainbows
along the water’s surface

Life teemed
in the silken underbelly
of the purple  night sky

someday

I will miss
this piece
of unfinished paradise.

My garden in the burbs of Houston. And yes, I do miss it.Written Oct 2006

#sliceofparadiselost

AprilDawn Apr 2014

Hole in the Sky

is that where
you went
I ask aloud
because I’ve lost
track of you somehow
one evening
smack dab in the center
of a  ring of clouds
was a gaping blue  hole
it’s as likely
as any  place
for you to be.

Where did my late husband go after he died ? Written 2006

#eternalquestion

AprilDawn Apr 2014

It Must Be

hard
to be
a butterfly
on a really
windy day

A simple ponder....

#wonder

AprilDawn Apr 2014

Misplaced

You don’t populate
my dreams
so much anymore
I castigate myself
for this
abysimal lack
of your presence
but every night
my dreams  take me
somewhere
you aren’t  .

Then he was even gone from my dreams.Written 2007

#whereareyou

AprilDawn Apr 2014

Another day

in the valley
feel no need
to scale any peaks
just easy-peasy
lay low
let the long silken rays
drape my weary soul
in glowing golden glory.

A location -place in my life poem .Massachusetts 2007

#zoneout

AprilDawn Apr 2014

Tangle

of moments
I dare to  call my life
  linear mortal that
I am ,
still spending way too much time
suspended in
          yesterday
when today is not totally unfurled.

Written in 2005 , edited recently , this piece was my continual struggle to find my way through this different life I was ****** into unexpectedly.

#tangledup

AprilDawn Apr 2014

Esperanza

I  planted hope
by the bathroom window
last year
yellow soundless  bells
were doomed to fail
with no
drainage holes
they drowned
in rustic pots
leaving the  jasmine
to claim their sun.

Plant death in my Houston burbs back yard garden. 2006

#soundlessbells