Nightmares

Bad dreams greeted

Me this morning

Filled with unrequited

Loves that haunted

Me like teasing

Ghouls some I’ve

Never dreamed before

Others have long

Brought me pain

Unable to shed

These terrors upon

Awakening I now

Shiver with a

Very heavy heart

ClarityCalm

The day starts

Fresh renewed and

Clear like warm

April mornings bringing

Budding daffodils the

Dense fog of

Indecision rolled off

The coast of

My heart heralding

Change alone again

Like the sole

Tree on the

Prairie I will

Bring shade to

Those wishing to

Sit beside me

Morning

The steam rises

From my coffee

Like hypnotized cobras

Coating my glasses

Like Thanksgiving kitchens

The house is

Quiet like midnight

Even though early

Morning sun creeps

Through blinds like

Lost children’s flashlights

In a forest

Mozart plays like

Those comfortable afternoons

In Essen with

My only grandmother

Giving me a

Sense of love

CharlotteMorn

And far off

Behind the tree

Line Canadian geese

Honk preparing for

Flight now they

Approach like Mardi

Gras revelers in

Strategic formation swooping

Like Heaven’s angels

At the rapture

Now past everything

Returns to quiet

This Charlotte morn

MorningHere

The streetlamp shatters

Sending shards of

Yellow light like

Brush fires onto

Grass as car

Lights glow blueish

White ahead then

Turn to red

Cats eyes as

They pass the

Sky glows an

Eerie blue like

Spent flash bulbs

As landing planes

Mew like lion

Cubs this is

The morning here