Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Sheila Murphy - 3 poems

 Hay(na)ku Sequence





pensive little seesaw

beneficiary nocturnal

mostly 


chimes

across elongated 

latitude to deflect 


an attitude perpetually

showing through

clear


drapes

patched across

the incendiary rodeo


bladey as gay

winter leitmotif

unduly


marginal

why not

broadcast via broadband


this broad rimmed

flimsy dove

tailing


raw

uncertain fish

trapped under pond


light hiding water

dark as

rugs


so 

race metallic 

Porsche like fast


as harshness glowing

within darkness

hush


fends

for some 

self not you


the altar crowd

already thin

conceptually


grows

broken in 

sotto perpendicular flight


***

Forward


Speaker. Language. Mirror. Wood. 

Elaborate dimension slows the mood.

Traipsing. Fever. Waltz. Disuse.

A tremolo fuses dance in feud. 


Surrender. Chisel. Leaflet. Good.

I'm in a garden thick with thorny roots.

Commitment. Rapture. Dozens. Brood.

She made her bed and lies now in her mood. 


***

Central Phoenix 



Rosy-faced lovebirds breed here. Palm trees thick with them give off chirping sounds. Flickering bright heads charge the neighborhood. Clouds cannot harm insistent peace. I walk near music, hear another childhood. Tiny parrots form a new community of light.

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