Midnight

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1.
Cold hearth
Filled with soot
And tears

2.
Sisters in velvet upstairs
Stepsister below
In ashes and despair

3.
Orchestral violins
Send forth dreams
Drifting over embers

4.
In the flames
Glowing fairy glass
Melts into slippers

5.
Princess at the ball
In scintillating silk
Becomes a fairytale  

Written for dVerse.

 

 

Vicissitude

Photo by Hossein Farahani on Unsplash

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.
Smooth eggs in the nest
Shiver and chip and flake
Over the flightless chick
Passing its first test

2.
Salt crested waves slide
Disturbing tiny grains
Rearranging patterns in the sand
Washing them away with the tide

3.
Granules of yeast lift
As the loaf bathes in heat
Transcending flour and water
Into a heavenly gift

4.
Crumbs of frozen lace
Drift down from bloated clouds
Shrouding the dying fields
With an icy embrace

5.
So the world spins
Day swims down to night
The waxing moon appears
And the next phase begins

A Cadralor written for dVerse.

Slither

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Glissading serpents slide
Over still stones saturated
In sunlight settling in circles
With glistening scales
And spilling sideways in scads
of smooth scaly noodles
Slinking and slithering this way
And that, swirling through a mass
Of hisses and rustles like silken
Laces of snakes