Red red Industrial pink dawn Saffron halo of sun Stars sink into cyan blue Half a world in darkness Half rolling into sun with you dreaming. The smell and heat of hair on skin, the sound Of your breathing lulled me like rainfall on a lake – I greet the day recalling you said, “If […]
Category: Flowers
Mugunghwa
A white Rose of Sharon Wide open like the third eye of Wisdom Stares at the morning star Mugunghwa / The Rose of Sharon, Korea’s National Flower The Poem appeared first in “The Fires of Spring” by Rayn Roberts 2002 All Buddhist traditions agree that as the morning star rose in the sky in the early morning, […]
Nosegay
What Chopin wanted most was to die in George Sand arms on his deathbed, all he got Was a nosegay of violets She left at his door When her daughter turned her away– People can be such shits. He wrote a friend on his deathbed, “She promised me I would die in her arms.” How did […]
