Sunday, August 5, 2012

AUGUST UNDER THE BRIDGE

The worn boards smell of mildew
and butterfies skim my hair

The pure clean mountain air
intoxicates the bees, dragonflies & me
the moss cushions my tired feet &
gooseberry vines crawl on to &
under the rocks

Soft cotton daisy fluff
finds my fingertips

The creek swishes,gurgles and babbles
stories of yester-years
I sit  under the bridge on rock
as she splashes my limbs back in time
the  shocking cold wakes my senses
 & the swift current whispers my
forgotten dreams

copyright: Dianne Tchir

Thursday, February 23, 2012

LOVERS DANCE

LOVERS DANCE

We are butterflies
that woke one early morn
fluttering in the mist
flying silently
touching ground
to change our disguise

copyright: Dianne Tchir

ANGEL DUST

ANGEL DUST

Still- frost clings to trees
brushing each branch & bud
with a stroke of Angel Dust

twittering jays, pine grosbeaks &
sweetie chickadees shake
the dust like a flurry
of sparkling diamonds

You strain to see as
you feed the birds

copyright: Dianne Tchir

DEFACEMENT

DEFACEMENT

Nature is indifferent to
my presence- lost &
suspended against the sky
that blends with stars
the Black Virgin
will find me

Tree shadows stretch
across the eerie highway where
feathers float in a flurry
filling the Fall air

The world seems unholy
exiled from light
we covet small ponds that
hold small sky
then

Gloat at the last winter’s ice
a carved jagged sculpture with
perfect peek holes that
floats on the creek
runs from the plasma of
human waste~that
alters the sculpture forever

Naked banks of pale straw
reveal my festering
garbage dump

Copyright: Dianne Tchir

IN SEARCH OF STRENGTH

IN SEARCH OF STRENGTH

We dwell in a fat man’s box
built upon a human garbage dump
mortar echoes a screaming FREE-
WAY ~ promises a transformed wilderness

A winding vacuum of malignant time
fills with feverish strangers
the spirit of a loping deer
annihilated by a profit

A river meanders below the flat
poisoning- swallowing banks of earth
carving an abyss, filling with refuse
choking the essence of life

The search for strength begins
in the abyss
infested with human destruction
intentions get lost to the universe
that warns of the painful climb

copyright: Dianne Tchir