Groundhog Day, half way to spring

half shadows sharpen

greening paths disappearing,

step attentively

out of darkness into light

Before the dawn,

the land is void

shifting between chasm
and cliff face.

From undifferentiated darkness
a vaporlit film forms
in the vanishing points:
sourceless, pervasive.

Sensing massiveness

evolving:

onyx edges
cut the firmament.

Moving through emerging

valleys, vales and voids:

envisioning indefinite shapes

into illuminated forms.

Hills metamorphosis

into volumes

to touch

and circumscribe.

The pearling vault

extrudes green from
below transposing

illusions of black.

Flushed-tinged

cheeky clouds

blush to barely touch

the unrevealed sun.

Facing the evanescent
blooming dawn

gives the most brilliant

gift of sight.

(another take on the theme, it’s always darkest before the dawn. Thankful for a new dawn and the drive to see it in its entirety. Never give in to the darkness.  Let the light change your view.)

Scrooge Finds Love on a Rooftop

give it all to charity,
all the stuff we hoard
behind windows
walls and doors!

give it all up
if it ain't
needed
no more!

live without it!
but, need it, we think?
like a warm coat,
or a stiff drink,

even hugs, and talks
and some hot soup?
- trash it like ashes,
- like cat and dog poop!

but some lights pull you upward,
eyes lured like a fish
to a rooftop's lights
a target "X",... for a wish.

inside the house, mother
three children and dog,
who gave up to cancer
their dad and his love.

Don't give up on the light
don't tear up the cards
don't toss out the touch
don't hold back the words.