Saturday, June 25, 2022

What If I Find Her

 



That 

Fire Goddess 

That beckons flame

As soon

As she

Beckons the sane 

In one matched scene 

I have held canes

To crush

At the crust

Of the mountains 

And dug 

At dirt

Intimate soil

As wings came 

And pulled 

Tearing me away

I called

Vulcan!

I hear you

Just below 

This ridge 

Of humanity 

As pages

Build cages

And deftness seems so far

I signal

Ritually 

I call in code

Red

Fire

Boudicca gathering

Fortify

Enrich

Bless our form and function 

Now

Forever 

And especially 

In the eyes 

Of the Fool



Monday, June 20, 2022

Safe Legend

 


Dazzling dimensions 

Disaster proud

Eagle of the witching hours 

Wild thought 

And never caught 

Safe Legend 

I hold 

Beholden to

This candid

Reconnaissance 

Intrepid foul

Look out

Beware 

Duck!

Out loud

Sliver slightly 

Through the trees

Into the early

Cadence 

Of the dawn 


Sunday, June 19, 2022

When they Come

 


I saw it

Removed

My eyes 

Promptly 

Conjured 

Protection 

Covered 

In cloaks 

Flashbacks 

Unheard

Headed

Back to bed

Exceptional 

Reflection 

Dipped in violets 

Bathed 

In anti-venoms 

Hoping 

That one crowd 

Or 4 

On horseback 

Could 

Extinguish 

This

Patisserie 


A Clue I picked up and added to the ‘lection “Clues”

Fresh baked from the fountain x-J

Saturday, June 18, 2022

Pernicious Luck

 


Harmful

Leave it be

Mosses lost

In forest new

The daylight brings no hare

The gripping vines 

Sail deep as seas

Pernicious 

As they dare

I while a way

The afternoon

Staring at my fairy cup

And hearing now 

A whispered fair

It’s time to fill it

With luck

Friday, June 17, 2022

Hours, Days, Months, Years

 


Feet on the ground 

Mired in muck

Storm

In the night

Picked up signals 

From the face

Never coming home

With the suitcase 

Of future lies

Minutes after

Closing the eye

The day you came back

I knew

The never hours

Were never close enough 

And the years

Chipped away 

Only after you opened 

The months

Fishing for grapes

After they rounded you up

And the wine

Your cheap excuse 

Hop on home with it

Forever 

Now I bind

The sheets

In the snow

As Ice

Grows off the roof

Never look

Never took

And the gripping

Flew out 

The house

Monday, June 6, 2022

A Monday Mood in Bloom




I see you 

New low

There’s not another 

Ten years 

To go

Your balancing 

On tip toes 

Knowing 

The ground 

You tread 

Now

Will be the one

You dig

Later

Can never change 

Now

Little 

Learned 

One



The word cakes I’m baking 

In the collection “Clues”

More from “flights” later ~don worry luvs

X J aka Painter Le Fay 

Friday, June 3, 2022

It’s June… Now What?

 


This is one of my new cubbies in the studio…

Still a work in progress 

It’s a gloomy day 

Cloudy and such

The green sights

From my second floor perch

Is not diminishing 

My mood

If there were 

A characteristic 

To shed light 

Into the room

Into the gloom

I would need 

More coffee 

To explore 

Or explain 

Exactly where on the treasure map

We were landing today 

It’s 9:40 am

On a Friday…?

I have a lawn-mowing video 

On in the background…

Why the mechanical cacophony 

Puts me at ease

I may never know

Is it white noise 

In the key of C

???