Thursday, July 31, 2014

Cinderella's Paradelle


for dVerse

Tears twice, ashes, and a pumpkin.
Tears twice, ashes, and a pumpkin.
Old cinders change; a new dress.
Old cinders change; a new dress.
A pumpkin, tears, ashes, and cinders,
twice old dress. A new change.

That fast gleaming ride was behind mice
That fast gleaming ride was behind mice
and once slippers dance into a gold heart
and once slippers dance into a gold heart
slippers and a heart dance into gold.
Once was gleaming behind mice that ride fast.

Coming midnight strikes. Running from the ball;
Coming midnight strikes. Running from the ball;
alas! To fall. A prince with glass leads to the way.
alas! To fall. A prince with glass leads to the way.
Running leads; a prince coming from the way to a lass
Midnight strikes the ball with glass to fall

Ashes and cinders change into gold
gleaming new a dress that once was old.
A pumpkin ride behind running fast mice
coming to a dance with a prince twice.
Alas midnight strikes. Tears and slippers fall.
Glass leads the way to the heart from the ball.



Monday, July 28, 2014

Daughter of the Nile



They all stare and muse in awe
At the ancient golden face
And wonder what those eyes saw

Charmed by her secret smile
They see only the flawless grace
Of this Daughter of the Nile




Thursday, July 24, 2014

Apricot Pie

for dVerse

The open oven reveals
Blackness surrounding a new world
Protected by a golden flakey crust
Apricot lava boiling to the surface
Cooling into bubbled glass
Pooling at the feet of burnt mountains
The edges held back by a sea of glass
Lest any traveler tumble
And fall from a flat world



Palengke Poem

Magpie Tale 229

Down at the palengke
- the wet market -
fruits sit side by side
sometimes oranges, bananas
and rambutan with soft red prickles
but my favorite
mangos
long and smooth
sometimes sticky
heavy in my hands
smelling of gentle yellow
sometimes sour
but mostly
sweet