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“Silence When I Need You Most”

Posted by liliessparrowsandgrass on August 26, 2016
Posted in: faith, Life, Love, Nature, Poems, poetry, Writing. Tagged: faith, Life, love, poems, poetry, rain. 10 Comments

by gnuckx Flickr

Silence
when I need you most
while drenched petals fall
under feeble moonlight
from rose-shrubs uprooted,
tumbleweeds blown
by the howling wind —

Would I need the finger-
touch of nail-prints, my hand
upon your side to know

You are here
somewhere in this garden
as I tread upon the flooded grass,
pellet drumbeats
drown
the silence that taunts
when I need you most.

by D. G. Vachal © 2016

Photography credit: by gnuckx @ Flickr Commons

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“Summer Interlude”

Posted by liliessparrowsandgrass on July 10, 2016
Posted in: Life, Love, Poems, poetry, Seasons, summer, Time, Writing. Tagged: Life, love, poems, poetry, Reflections, seasons, summer, Time, Writing. 2 Comments

Perseids Meteor Shower by JP Danko pic 2

Ivy and honeysuckle climb
forbidden picket fences,
alabaster butterflies alight
upon the foxgloves,
lavender fields are fragrant
in the silver glow
of summer twilight —

I watch the seasons dance
upon your face,
feel the temperate breezes
heal
our winter-charred arms —

youth returns
if only for a fleeting moment
when amethyst and beryl,
topaz and peridot
explode
against the sapphire sky
of your smiling eyes —

I catch
diamonds and meteors
into the willow basket
of my daily bread.

D. G. Vachal © 2016

 

*** Photography Credit: Perseids Meteor by J.P. Danko

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“After Winter”

Posted by liliessparrowsandgrass on April 2, 2016
Posted in: beauty, Hope, Joy, Life, Love, Memories, Poems, poetry, Reflections, Seasons, Spring, Time, Writing. Tagged: Hope, Life, loss, love, Mourning, poems, poetry, Reflections, seasons, Spring, Writing. 7 Comments

Crocus Playtime - Lord V@flickr
Melted snow and now
relentless the waterfalls
flood-level ponds
drown the fragrance
of lotus white flowers —

February, you were cruel
savage winds battered homesteads
of burning hearths,
defiant
I treasure the fire
of remembered
warm seasons —

Weeping through March
nighttimes,
dew-tears moisten earth’s
winter-hard soil, awaken
emerald and amethyst
in blades of grass
and crocus petals —

April hours come
with dove-feather showers,
lenient winds,
promise the arrival of warmer
seasons once again.

by D. G. Vachal © 2016

*** Photography by LordV@Flickr

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Last Days of December

Posted by liliessparrowsandgrass on December 30, 2015
Posted in: Uncategorized. 10 Comments

My thoughts again… on the last day of December….

lilies, sparrows and grass


Last Days of December

Time to be       tranquil now
no longer the consonant     prattle of leaves
in tussle with vowels         of the wind,
whatever must fall
has
fallen
to the brumal ground,
flower by flower,
seed by seed.

Colors linger in the sky,
of rose bouquets and tiger lilies,
and the poetry of April crouches
in fetal position
within the uterus of vaporous
snow clouds —

Time to be still.

by D. G. Vachal © 2012

*** Photography by Paolo De Faveri

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“End of Autumn”

Posted by liliessparrowsandgrass on December 18, 2015
Posted in: Autumn, beauty, Fall, Life, Nature, Poems, poetry, Reflections, Seasons, Thoughts, Time, Winter, Writing. Tagged: Autumn, beauty, fall, Life, Nature, poems, poetry, seasons, winter, Writing. 6 Comments

Igor BurdinMottled colors flutter
like butterflies,
await
the pristine white
canopies —

Wind-parched leaves
mantle the oak-brown
soil with topaz and jasper
above the dormant seeds
of wilted wildflowers —

Hearken to horse-hoof
raindrops,
the muffled fracture
of petioles letting go
at the eleventh hour

when all the coins of time
are spent
and the egrets of winter
alight
upon the emerald cedar
branches.

D. G. Vachal © 2015

Photo credit: Igor Burdin

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