My husband's poetry

Author: cfblack

  • Carousel pony

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    “And Merlin said quietly, “Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.” John Steinbeck _____ Dinosaur bones in need of a good story St. George appears, slays dragons, becomes a superhero, patron saint, a pundit for cable news, a priestly knight jousting on a carousel pony never unhorsed, never…

  • Moonscapes

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    “We are the space between the fish and the moon.” Rumi Some nights, the moon lights my way through the dark, but when it wanes it becomes a sword to wage war with the world Other nights, it’s a child pulling at a mother’s heart or just a rock broken from a bigger rock and…

  • Christmas in Ukraine

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    I know brilliant things will come from children born from loving in a burnt out basement in midst of war …and that gives me hope 12-27-22

  • Salat

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    “I’ve been knocking from the inside.” Rumi seventy years, I have been looking high and low for myself and I was here all the time admiring the moon adrift in the lake dying of thirst too proud to kneel down and drink 12-23-22

  • Waiting for a pie fight

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    Sunrise 36, rain is forecasted for 10 am. Before buckets fall from atop the door in this Three Stooges movie, you get your walk in. An hour before noon, you peek out the windowblind disappointed that it hasn’t rained. 12-20-22

  • It’s always somewhere else

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    on the cold dreary day before winter solstice you daydream hot summer days and wonder why your shadow doesn’t cool your feet where two of you meet 12-20-22

  • 21st Century Mother Goose

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    last night, you dreamed of a mud dauber wasp nest above the chamber door, papered corridors of babies waiting to bite, a Supreme Court packed with Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eaters and a blindfolded lady swinging her scale at a pinata filled with surprises (you hope she wins) 12-20-22

  • Late Autumn haiku

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    again and again in preparation for Spring rake last Spring in piles 12-20-22

  • Thin air

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    On the Saturday morning before winter solstice, you walk along the shore watching squirrels chase each others tail up and down trunks of trees leaping from tree to tree, playing catch me if you can. _____ One misjudges its abilities and the distance between two trees, grasps at nothing, belly flops in chill water, swims…

  • happy holidays

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    (Someday I will get these in the order they were written.–cb.) ‘Tis the season of gifts, food and Santas jangling Salvation Army bells Watching ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas,’ An American Tail and New holiday movies that become memes overnight Bags of toys that break too soon (batteries not included) NBA, NFL and bowl games on…