Five kites

 Five Kites

Came circling 

Chirping 

And I went 

Scurrying

For a camera

Aiming and 

Hitting three

Before they 

Saw me 

And soared 

Rapidly

Down the

Air ways

And away.

DYI vorce

 Do it Yourself

john Clare Stokes

he told her he wanted a 

do it yourself divorce

after all those years

he left her no choice

separate everything

even separate 

ring tones on the phone

we said it has to be

the dementia

or failure to communicate

well he gets it

even if she don't want it.

Awake

 Soon the cynics shall be awaking

The skeptics from their fitful rest

They will see no moon in heaven

It has long since left with the poets

Come Sons

Come sons

John Clare Stokes

Come from far flung

Ports of distant origin

Tell to me

The stories I longed

To hear

With folded hands

And smile set for 

Eternity

I’ve a long, long time

To In this dream

Everything seemed 

as I dreamed

it would be 

there are tender mercies 

in dreams 

we know not

who concocts 

the scenes

but they were real

while we dreamed

As we dreamed

It would be.

Shekinah Friday

 That’s just like Shekinah

Show up on a Friday

The heavenly ladder

 

Missing inaction

 Missing inaction

The dew knew

 The dew knew

For the dew could see

Peering at me

It knew

I could not escape

The piercing gaze

Clouds in my coffee

 To all who had some dreams 

Once I did

You were in them

Only problem

You had already

Awakened

Grace

 Grace 

Having Grace does coincide with gracefulness

Left at loti

 Left at Loti 

Take a left at Loti then paddle exactly

Thirty-three strokes 

through the pungent thick pickerel purple

past the anhinga in cypress preening

then repeat exactly back to the Lotus.

Fairie lure

 Fairy lure

Long in stillness lay I motionless

Perchance perhaps in the wild wind

I may someway lure a fairy in

Most elusive these little nymphs Faery lure 

When the moon is full

And the dandelion too

Set your net above 

Soon she’ll come to you.