Quadrille Monday: Quadrille #31

Today is Quadrille Monday over at dVerse Poets Pub. The prompts are always interesting and a poem of exactly 44 words is win-win! Come join us for a variety of short short poems based on the word prompt “still”. the word “still” or stillness or other derivative of the word is one of the required 44 words. http://dversepoets.com/2017/04/24/quadrille-31/

Chiaroscuro
the flower moon is waning –
sleepless I drift through the rooms
in my house like a ghost.
shadows from the curtains
throw dappled patterns on the floor –
a puzzle I cannot read.
the stillness is a dull roar in my ears.
the flower moon is waning.

Heron

Another entry for the Imagist Poetry prompt over at dVerse. http://dversepoets.com/2016/01/28/image-ine-dverse-meeting-the-bar/ Even if you say you don’t care for poetry, I think you will like these linked poems.  No photo for this.  The poem is the image.

Heron
Lazy creek lined on both sides
by thick cedars – water the ancient color
of burnt sienna dyed by cedar tannins.
The marshland is silent.
The couple in the slowly floating canoe is silent.
A heron standing one legged in the creek
watches them pass.
He dips his beak in the water
before lifting himself to the sky.

侘 寂

silence.  midnight.
head bowed, white hair –
errant frost catches moonlight.
silence. crickets sleep.
sword across her knees
catches moonlight.
silence. dew falls.
wings flutter.
owl settles.
silence.

Sunday 1:00 a.m.

Quiet and alone

I sit and gaze at the moon.

Clouds of gauze drift across

Its face.

Brilliant light reflects on

the surrounding clouds.

I long to put my arms around you

Like a circle around the moon.

Indigo night sky

Starless and dark

Except for the moon.

The only bit of brightness

In the darkness.

You – the light in

My indigo soul

Starless and dark.

A small wild rabbit

Grazes in a patch of clover and

Never sees me at all.

I am so still, he does not

Perceive my presence.

The rabbit and I strangers,

Yet companions under the August moon.

The silent moon gazes at me

And keeps my secrets.