blue skies poetry

The rings, blessed, are forced, […]

Filed under: Maria Robson by akublik Date 13 December, 2007
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in a nursing home
blinded with
macular degeneration.
I come to you,
blurred eyes, crystal mind,
countenance of grace.
as yesterday’s winds
I have consumed you
and taken you away.
“Where did God disappear to?”
You murmured
over and over again
like running water
or low voices
in prayer:
“Oh, there He is,
angel of the coming.”
~ Michael Lee Johnson
Michael Lee Johnson lives in Chicago, IL after spending 10 years in […]

Filed under: Michael Lee Johnson by akublik Date 10 December, 2007
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range steers lumber,
a slow meander, nodding
in a buzz of august heat.
folks murmur
in a thin shade,
lean back, ankles crossed.
on a plank table,
summer supper is pushed away.
at sunset, night drifts in
on the cool breeze
dries the skin,
quivers the aspens,
breathes billows
into silken skirts of firelight.
dusk settles,
a blanket of silence
over the heat;
and trickster sings
voice quavering
across the full round […]

Filed under: Kathie Sutherland by akublik Date 6 December, 2007
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old friend,
trapped in lonely
web-lined skin,
a tent on brittle bones,
release your breath
release your life from a body
dying into dust.
heavy in my arms,
in deep narcotic sleep,
cancer pain at bay,
her head lies soft
against my chest.
at the window
a curtain of branches, weeps
a sweep of air
waits for you.
clouds gather
into billowed drifts
like energies on a life horizon.
your last breath
surrenders
wind-stretches
like cirrus […]

Filed under: Kathie Sutherland by akublik Date 3 December, 2007
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