New Light Unspoken

Nocturnal flower

In need of sleep

Your petals wilt

The count for sheep

 

New dawn unpromised

The die is cast

A croupier blocking

Sun’s setting mask

 

Through endless courtship

Dreams on the run

A jester whispers

Till sleep has come

 

The meadow sparse

Its reaper gone

New light unspoken

  —your buds in song

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)

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