Stained Glass

for dVerse

The sun

Shines through the glass

Tracing bright patterns on

The floor in red and green and blue

Falling down like magic. Changing the room

Into a chamber of wonder

Filling eyes with delight

Do you see them

Glisten?

Staring wide at

Those ancient glass windows

Catching and holding slippery light

Suspended in black frames by human hands

Faces staring down while we stare up

Caught ourselves in wonder

By dancing light

Golden.

Pearls

for The Honeybee

white birds

sitting like a strand of pearls

pulled from the waters

placed carefully in a line

with a green satin backdrop

pine needles waving in the wind

Seeker

for the Honeybee and dVerse

for the unicorn seeker

as you search the clouds

and the ocean waves

rising dancing streams of white

your eyes search every

view for the elusive unicorn

they say there is no unicorn

why then are you a seeker?

peering through tangled branches and every

dream caught against the sky’s clouds

hoping for a glimpse of a dazzling white

mane falling in waves

light and frothy like clouds

then you’ll know a unicorn

and reach to touch the horn white.

the journey is long seeker

many have sought and only seen clouds

straining their hearts at every

wishful thought and every

false start gone like the waves

yet still they look to the clouds

for somewhere there is a unicorn

so are you willing seeker?

to spend your days in search of white?

and when your hair turns white

and you see yourself in every

young and youthful seeker

till sighs come out like waves

to think they might see a unicorn

while you saw only the clouds.

but did you not see in the clouds

the horn spiraling white

and feel the eyes of a unicorn

brightly shining looking back at every

believer through the ocean waves

and know that he too was a seeker?

and when at last the clouds part every

elusive white horn through the waves

of a unicorn’s mane will be before you seeker.