The later
August sky
weeps of
slow diamonds
& thunder rolls
[suddenly]
like the
end of days/
Last pink
roses are still
radiant in the
faded twilight.
On my way
homeward
& one solitary
firefly is
still alight.

8/28/2024
9/10/2024

The lonely
spider in my
old window still
weaves through a
cold rain/
Will the spinners
still "cry chill silk"
before August
arrives?

7/17/2024

*Remembering Li Ho

Was that
your ghost
or cold death's
poem
Rippo?
Whisperings
to me alone
beneath a
snow
softened wind/
Now the lonely
road curves
farther
away into
unbroken silences,
looking long & again
for your
"last &
loveliest".

1/15/2024

Last
Autumn
brocades
of colour
are still
chased by
a cold wind/
Through
a darkening turn
of road
the lonely
black cat
follows me
[almost]
half way
home.

11/1/2023

I know you
wed the
Poet Soul, O
Marina/
Truer
eyes like
forever
Can you
still see
into me
back there?

Treasures of
deep promises/
of your
poems & remembrances
silver bracelets
grace each
delicate hand/

O Your poems
& love
still speak of
forever
& now/
One living
"heartsong"
w/in the
eternal
now.

For Marina Tsvetaeva
9/5/2023


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I keep
expecting
to see you
around each
empty corner waiting
or dreaming before
Noon on the porch/
My old friends
gone
too suddenly;
w/in an
eternal brightness
now,
bright as
first sunlight
after the stars &
shimmering
off
into the
blue.

May this bond
of Love's heart
never be broken
or end.

For Special Orange
Felix & Scritch Cat
8/5
8/31
9/72023

No roses
but a
motionless
sunburst of
Swallowtail
alone in the
road/
Your grave
would
soon be
(at last)
beneath this
promise
of new blooms.

4/26/2023

What is
left of the
old may
now enter
the new/
Farther stars
in the mist
go dim
& forgotten
orchids still
cry frozen
tears.
All along
the silent
way &
home-ward,
my cold shadow
greets me
like a
lost friend.

1/1/2023

O rose
not forgotten/
still petals
remain
once full of
longing &
now
frozen in a late
Autumn
rain.

11/25/2022

One last
Autumn
bloom
of roses
are most
lovely
before there
will be no
roses.

11/2/2022