Tuesday, 27 August 2019

Lion heart meets its match

Pussy here owns the place!
From the front window frames
to the corners of the garage,
the floors kiss his pillow paws
in his slick sleepy parades.

Between the gate and the ground
where little light squeezes down to
greet Lion-heart with the birth of day,
an intruder crawled in today.

Filled with the size of his name,
forward his shoulders rolled
like only a hunter may.
But as he closed the space
to face he who stole the sun,
slower got his steady pace
for light could breach again
hitting the slender silhouette.

His crown would not allow
a second guessing of his step,
the long curvy trespasser
should have to slither back.

The snake full bellied
by larger a mammal
blinked once and twice,
but it gave no surrender sign.
She had to analyze the insanity
that made it try tower over her.

And as the reptile's head
lifted in the magic of its ways
above the tall held cat
she could distinguish sweat
breaking behind its gaze,
so she kissed its tiny nose in truce
for she witnessed a lion's heart.

Monday, 26 August 2019

Goodbye fleeting river (version2)

A carcass of your touch,
with fresh mint pop gum
A shadow adrift of a cloth
used on the floor hanging to dry.

You came back! Knee on
the stone step of this front porch
as last night on my pillow, vowing...
to stay for good, to make it better.

But... You left!
My thoughts drifted to when you did,
that salted dam released my burden,
I felt the air enclosed in no more.

At last,
my tongue gained ghostly words, its last:
"I am sorry, but I can't... let you in.
I'd love to trust your word, but... I... don't.?!"

So my hand closed
the heavy door of wood
and after facing it motionless
I too... left.

Wednesday, 21 August 2019

He wants it too.


His eyes widen bright holding the dam,
his lips tremble overlaid plumed of red,
his arms cross a bumper to his chest
and his foot strikes the floor ever louder.

- I have heard you and the answer is no!

His body splashes to the floor
waves of arms and legs
mopping the rivers he breaks in.

I breathe so,
stretching my lungs
to knock on my brains
to wake me from this scene.

He wouldn't even care
if only she hadn't gotten one,
but what was I to do?
She earned hers
and he could have too.