S R Mats

S R Mats Feb 2023

I feel like a dragonfly who’s lost its wing;
No! I feel like the dragonfly’s wing, lost;

Left to flutter down slowly in the wind,
To dwell, an iridescent gossamer thing,
Amidst a muddy range of things that ****

Dragonflies, and collect dragonfly wings.

S R Mats Feb 2023

Poetry Bites

The poetry of life, like a big dog, sinks
It's teeth into you and shakes you.
Bitten to the bone you are infected.

S R Mats Feb 2023

Fling Back Your Sling-Backs

Fling back your sling-backs
To me! Ain't nothing gonna bar
Your unbridled joy of runnin'
Through that cool grass.

S R Mats Feb 2023

You

You by my side
You standing near
You next to me
You I hold dear
You are a need
Which I fill
As often as possible
You are sustenance

S R Mats Feb 2023

Tethered in Love

In my mind
I follow the line of beauty
In every fiber of your being.

It stretches from the 1st time
I saw your face to the last.
Its continuum tethers me, still.

S R Mats Feb 2023

Winter’s Muted Tones

A powder of pink, blush
Is painted on the baby blue.
The snow falls softly,
As light as goose down.
I walk along a deserted shore
With only birds tracing lines
Across the watercolor sky
Then move into the gentle night.

S R Mats Feb 2023

Nature Calls

Knowing it is just a patience game
We sit, we play the game, we wait;
The honking geese, a gaggle,
Beneath a crest of the moon.
Frost and snow and the geese,
A distant fox is patient, too.