“Corsica Sunset” by Leonid Afremov
sienna dusk folds itself
crumpling clouds along vast
orange seams briefly blazing
beneath the precipitous night
From my book Bohemian Scents
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Venice at Dawn – Photo from Pinterest
sinews of city
in the hour of sunrise
find veneration
From my books City of Pawns and Riverthink
“Day and Night” by Modern Art Prints
daylight dimensions blaze golden
draw life into relief
against endless darkness of
death in the night
From my book Bohemian Scents
“Night Broadway” by Leonid Afremov
competing marquees
glare and kick at the rain
dripping titles on tourists
as puddles of playwrights
collect in the cracks
of sly sidewalks
conspiring to end-around
critics with colors
refracted and sheened
at disposable incomes
and bourgeoisie tastes
(originally posted December 2013)
“Night Sky” by Nikol Wikman
impressing the stars
such ridiculous folly
the light in their eyes
is so achingly old
they won’t see you
for millions of years
and by then
they’ll have watched
birth and death of
uncountable splendidly
interesting worlds
do you think the brief
speck of a spark
that was you
will have mattered at all
if you do
then I’ll make you
a place in my heart
where I keep a conviction
that every life
matters a lot
more than starshine
can ever record
or will likely remember
(originally posted December 2013)
“Tuscan Sunset” by Marjorie Rand
heart made of Italian sun
bearing sadness of ages
burnt umber memories
work to dilute and subdue
its emotional light
the old radiant gold
of an ambient peasantry
given a somber new cast
beating slower and softer
worn to low burnish by
remnants of time dipped in
ancestral ashes of change
ashes laid down in layers
by weakening flames
of this elderly fire
“Melancholy” by Nancy Willis
darkness falls victim
crystal candle explosion
opulent murder
(originally posted January 2017)
“Dawn at the Pond” by Karen Gillis Taylor
on the rise of a morning
impossible dreams
gather promise
as they lift from the
rumpled remains of a night
upon brightening bands
of an opportune sky
and the dreamer awakens
his future surprisingly cast
in array of new colors
excited by light in a way
never heretofore
hoped for or seen
“Venice Sunset” by Ginette Callaway
stained glass skies
lovers’ light
paints their promises
hushed liquid lanes
carry vespers on
hours of evening
soft whispering
maritime breezes
speak centuries
into a chorus of
stucco and stone
quiet colors of
history blending
with hopes for a
future of hearts
still stylish with youth
and its passions
a fusion of water
of land and of sky
with those yearnings
as timelessly human
as life in itself
Image From wallarthd.com
I miss the late sun
rods and cones
perked by sworn affidavits
of light upon broad
panoramic existence
I miss the long day
sight degraded
by limited aid of a
tingling protracted
ballet of electrons
I miss what I know
to be there in the night
or is this instead
a believing not knowing
what dawn will reveal
I miss what I see
of my context
the nearness and
distance attending
my place in creation
I miss what I learned
in my evening hammock
from edified scripture
of imminent birth
by the light of one star
I miss what I thought
I could see plain as day
before realizing nothing
is quite as it seems
till it’s seen in the dark
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