Love conquers all/some

Apparently it was a very moving sermon about all you need is love.

 

Have they not heard

that every marriage starts in love ?

Have they not heard

that love incarnate, gentle bird

covers the earth in thought and word,

and cruel death despite the dove ?

Have they not heard ?

Not news

One mention yesterday, just the body count. An ordinary day at an American school.

 

The news again

the end result of bloody toys

the news again

like some unfunny tired refrain

the mess caused by those manly toys

yet silence follows now, not noise,

the news again.

Dark creeps so fast

Got my plan for book three sorted out! As a treat (for me), a rondelet. For the dverse OLN.

 

Dark creeps so fast

Swallows the light where I would walk

Dark creeps so fast

Though hands beseech sun shines its last

Gold dying beams on flower stalk

On pelt of fox and wing of hawk

Dark creeps so fast.

Walking at dusk

Walking at dusk,

When mist rolls down from darkening hills.

Walking at dusk,

Stirring scents of dog wood musk,

Leaf-damp shadow the hollows fills—

I listen as a bird still trills,

Walking at dusk.

Front page

For the Secret Keeper’s weekly challenge. The words are

PAGE | GUN | YOUNG | PERSON | STAGE

 

It makes front page

The spree of a kid with a gun

It makes front page

When just for once he’s centre stage

With warped ideas of harmful fun

Random revenge for vague wrongs done

It makes front page.

At end of day

At end of day

Soft dusk falls slow through fading light

At end of day

Owl hunts ghosts through shadows grey

While shades of day slip into night

And those who sleep curl out of sight

At end of day.

Night has woken

A good night poem from this very strange and special day.

 

Night has woken

A sea of shadow waves has spread

Night has woken

Owl and nightingale have spoken

Bird tongue calling the quick, the dead

And those agate—for those abed

Night has woken.