Thursday, March 30, 2017

Parchment Histories from Shooting Stars

—Poems by B.Z. Niditch, Brookline, MA
—Anonymous Photos



DOVES

Doves on the rooftops
before this alcove

birdsong will rise
on an open grassy field

forgetting the hour
lodged in this dawn

destined to escape
for a shield of snow.

_____________________

BY THE TUILERIES

Pushing aside my thoughts
by the Tuileries

wondering which flowers
will make a brief daylight scene

within a curl of winding
strawberries

to take time away
from the artistic loneliness

of so many gathered here
to echo in their art or music.



 Tuileries Garden



IDOMENEO

Mozart's overture
opens an opera

that lacerates
the curse

in its libretto
the culture

of the gods
plays out its part

where love
opens our hearts.

___________________

IN A RIPTIDE

In a riptide
the boat rears up

on the shore
where two blackbirds

rise by half-flight
over at the tidal basin

as cherry blossoms
spin in the air.



 Riptide
—Anonymous Photo



RODIN

The Thinker
that was his body

distant eyes
of philosophy

always
on the precipice

of Dante's
conclusions,

earthbound
by logic.



 —Anonymous
 


AT NIGHT

At night
by twined hours

a decade passes
its petals

and rootless seasons
from blinded lights

of guiding dust
in parchment histories

from shooting
stars.

__________________

FAULKNER'S NOVELS

A construct root
of reflections

installed by voices
of pranks hijacked

to prejudice
in his metropolis

in an abyss
of family relations

from a direction-less
sense of endless existence

yet with outposts
of ultimate humaneness.

___________________

Today’s LittleNip:

THE FALLING STAR
—Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

I saw a star slide down the sky,
Blinding the north as it went by,
Too burning and too quick to hold,
Too lovely to be bought or sold,
Good only to make wishes on
And then forever to be gone.

_________________

Many thanks to B.Z. Niditch for today’s tasty technicolor poems, as his shooting stars light up the sky!

—Medusa



 Celebrate poetry!










Photos in this column can be enlarged by clicking on them once,
then click on the X in the top right corner to come back
to Medusa.