One of my first attempts at poetry...hard to keep it short!


PATIENTLY IT WAITS…

Feral indifference
scratching
outside,
an affront to
the perfectly vain.

By night a stranger, perchance
a crony
in day’s light, impetuous
companion
on long walks,
quickening
far
from home.

Soft murmurs swirl
a lover’s whispered
desires tantalizing, taunting,
beware! the fury
beyond the push of gray
sky, and patiently
it waits…

Alpha and Omega, Mother
Earth’s loving caress
before
the wounding,
howling testimony echoes
the futility of
things
temporal.

Restive allegiances congeal
frantic heat,
stupefying cold, the town crier
unheeded, seas
of whistling green
beneath
the flay
of willow’s branch.

Buddhist mandala,
a masterpiece blown
asunder,
smooth stones wait
for soft
breeze or violent gale, renegade
gusts flee
with our ashes as light
dims, and patiently
it waits…