Drapped in silken webs-
gossamer, the ties that bind,
strung with drops of dew.
Tenderly surrounding me,
clothed with rare and precious veils.
Archive for February, 2008
Weavings~a tanka
Posted in Poetry on February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Forged
Posted in Poetry on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Come into the woods of my desire,
beneath these spreading boughs of leafy green.
Dance with me within this raging fire,
unveil the dreams within, so seldom seen.
Hold me close, with arms both sure and tender,
then press your kiss upon my upturned face.
Catch me when I fall, my love, surrender,
enraptured here as passion leaps from grace.
Born again in [...]
Love’s Portion
Posted in Poetry on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I, before God’s eye, a supplicant
rebuke the face of fate, the weight of years
that bows a back once supple, stooped by time-
recanting veils of youth, to which I yield,
proved false, the voice of spring, her whispers low,
teasing the dreams of peasants and of czars
to ache for all, invincible and new
clutched to the breast- impossible [...]
Sifting Snow
Posted in Poetry on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I bought a Chinese fan today
at O’Houlihan’s on Cayuga Street,
cream colored silk. A handpainted
willow girl, colors muted with age,
kneeling on a long ago scarlet rug…
her face so like my niece, Jiang Shi Ting,
carried in the arms of my two sisters from
the Shaoguan orphanage, bourne away
on an ancient bus, a bone-jarring ride
over washed out roads to [...]
