solstice

winter solstice ~
when disporportional darkness
most overshadows daylight

but in this time of
endings and beginnings,
balance is regained
by encompassing the whole

for in the southern hemisphere,
this same day is gibbous
with summer's beginning

The Void

The lights seem far from the wall
Gales blowing through the cracks
Bringing the grounded dust of the past
Loose stones crumble and fall

She looks through veiled curtains
Seeking shelter from the dry blast
She sinks back into the parched wretchedness
Severing desires and dreams
She once saw in Being-ness

The hawk circles above
Throwing harsh shadows on the imagination
She looks up at the murky form
As it swoops down on the carrions of her fantasies

She turns around in the vacuum
There is a flame of darkness
A sigh of red and a breath of grey
Frissons of silence pass silent
Like clouds on the road at night
Calm, and still.

- applestar

cloud traffic

winter morning sketches
of thoughts
_________of dreams
on a paper
________in the sky
a white plane
reaches
an invisible moon

(inspired by the morning news program below)

Morning news program

Wait, don't reach for the remote
to flick on the television news

Listen for the calls of the migrating birds

Watch the traffic of the clouds
as dawn washes the sky with colour

Feel the throbbing of your pulse
syncopate with the heartbeat of your lover

Tides of breath
Taste of mist
Feel of the earth holding you
Scent of night's blooms closing
Light of day opening

Let this be your morning news program