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Pebbling this shore of our universe
...a meteor shower of words on this eve...


Playing blues on my keyboard--
picking out despair
on pixel
strings
--

Up Early
 
In the gray-hazed dawn
Pale light blossoms
Softly explode from a violet tree
Rising by a jade-green hedge
Birdsong morning
--

rain puddle on oil
red and blue swirls on blacktop--
a peacock feather

--

dark cliff walls
except in the narrows of our canyon--
that moon

First pub. 3-line poetry
​---

​
harvest

ogre marshmallows
under the blue oz of sky--
plastic-wrapped hay bales
 
First pub. In Full of Crow
--


a trail of dashes
translucent on our red brick--
night’s telltale caller
 
--First pub. 4and20poetry
--

Night Watch Psalm
 
Walled granite
Moonlight
One mile
Down
Below the rocked rim
In the rusted Canyon
Rushing Colorado
River russet copper;
Nearby in the evened dusk
I lay ‘stilled,’ a silent psalm
In the shine
Of that lighted granite
Eyes wide in the dawn
Of that Night
 
--
 

Perspective

Moments flash
Like falling meteors--
Precious glories, 
I miss
Because I pine for that remote quasar
Whose light taunts--
Starred fixation, yet it burned out
Many a millennium ago--past
Light years
Gone
--


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Misplaced?
 
Lost?
Seek the moral compass
Round this world ringed
Compassioned--
Don't pass by on the other side;
Be passionate
And encompass
Love's Sphere
Found
 
--
 
starlight
when one doesn't
see the dark
 
---
 
seashore
 
under seagulls kiting,
molten froth waves roll in--
we hotfoot it across sand
 
--
 
Outside the Limit
 
Working the Thursday graveyard shift
But alert in the night,
I muse in stillness
Awash drowned in awe,
Transcendent
Luminousness,
Aware beyond words vivid bliss
Blessed all-encompassing exalting surpassing
Great Essence’d
Wonder
Of Becoming
 
--
 
Cape May Light
 
Back then
Her young wedding eyes glistened
More than the prism'd Fresnel lens
That centered our lives
On the Jersey shore;
 
She's a Keeper.
 
--
 
horse trailer passing
by tan scythed eucalyptus leaves
that skit along gutter
 
--
 
 
Retreaded
 
I’m retreaded but road-tired,
Rolling across cantankerous land
Though, thank heavens—knock around
On pavement
And Redwood,
Not yet sent off to a ‘board and card’ mansion,
Rehearsing…
 
You know where decks and bingo
“Was a dog…” chips or
Markers
Define the tokened measures of your life--
 
Or where
Reclining and breathing entertain you.
 
No, I stand in wonder,
Disabled though, and tremble
Wander
Here and now,
I exist, a fading spark of awed experience--
Transcendence,
Conscious breathing carbon, oh so brief
Then ash
Scattered--
Any meaning marker?

 
--
 
 
In fall's leaved trees
Melted rainbows dripping
Among the branches
Colorful collages
Assaulting our senses
 
--
 
manta ray
sting
of the hoe blade
 
--
 
warped fence boards in sand
lean askew toward green windbreak
old gnarled cypress
 
--
 
lines, no white shirts but
birds black in a row clothes-pinned
to the telephone wires
 
--

Falling like cold ash on our faces—prayer in our last hour
--

 
Imprisoned
 
A black barred window
Locking out the evened sky
Or rungs to the stars
 
--
 
date palms swayed up
in the crimson sky
feather dusting
dusk
 
--
 
snow falls to crystal
trail, deep white over my knees
light inside my head



--Dan Wilcox
 
 
Short Poems First Pub.
by
Willows Wept Review,
4 and 20 Poetry,
Full of Crow,
hotmetalpress.net,
lyrical passion poetry,
Poetry Pacific,
Liturgical Credo,
Flutter Poetry Journal,
The Mindful Word,
a handful of stones,
The Cherry Blossom Review
Stylus Poetry Journal,
Three Line Poetry,
Idlewheel literary friction,
The Mississippi Crow
Posted by Daniel Wilcox  
Labels: aware, birdsong, dawn, eve. psalm, haiku, Light, meteors, morning, mystical, nature, pebbles, shooting stars, short poems, stones, transcendence, tree, violet, meteors






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