Soft Shock of Apples Falling
Soft Shock of Apples Falling
A.
Spring flowers are babbling
flying embers taking chase
one puts their hands up to face
goodbye world gardens
White Lilies in a black lake
still on Heaven’s windless hill
when trees hold dead seeds in hand
who will save the land?
Earth I cannot say goodbye
you have held me as a child
showed me the greatest valleys
hidden swimming hole
This land says lay low lay low
no one will know when you die
we slowly walk to our jobs
the land says lay low
Always climbing up beanstalks
feel the need to fight old giants
with hopes that dreams will come true
and maybe they will
Soft shock of apples falling
from old trees in the orchard
upon the rocky hilltops
forgotten orchards
B.
Chicken with fresh Rosemary
a pungent leaf under knife
like so many death poems
turn tattered pages
In woods we quarrel and war
over withered Strawberry
darkened and sweetened past noon
hidden from pasture
Your love has become winter
a force gone predatory
fighting against my nature
different story
Once along this windy road
I forced myself all alone
to watch a stalk of wheat bend
slightly in a breeze
As study of hilltops show
religious imagery goes
apex of the average
hill in ratio
This sticky sweet winter sea
a beach of seaweed and pod
replaced by city tallness
lovely city trees
C.
These flowers placed for the dead
along the path I sought her
seem to have wilted with time
so will she love well?
With light Psyche turns to dust
dance no more in narrow shoes
all that you love lies right here
solid patch of ground
With guitar I carry on
heard through eternal silence
no soft footsteps of children
rustling fall leaves
I arrive to the party
too tired to be merry
to glance at newspaper
ominous weather
Darling hard from ragged chill
leave baggage and dry your eyes
be careful you may fall ill
too many tears fall
Your true lover remains this view
and this hilltop will fight time
to plan for eternity
a love that will stay
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Words can sure take us places. Jamie…the words in your writings can take us to a million places…all at once! Hope you are doing well?
Wonderful down to Earth poetry, Jamie.