A Poem: "Listen"

Listen !

Can you hear nothing?

The gift of stormy snow

While I listen others must go

The low-pressure will take some stellar bound

While I listen to a wold without sound

Hark!

My heart cries for this

My body eases into slow

My breath abates as some souls go

The earth is frozen silent as my eyes melt into my ears

Strange how a world without sound calms my fears

A Poem: The Rainbow

Making a Wish on the Rainbow

Some loved ones are no longer below

Shedding skin their Spirit glows 

They sit at the same table tonight

Wondering at the Ides of March plight

Listening to their  children's music with delight

A new painting and a song is made tonight

Play compose paint and be you 

For that is what a great parent wants you to do!

Like ephemeral fleeting flames

Mother Earth decorates and reclaims

Frozen time encapsulates

Truly though God Recreates

Life, fickle like a passing storm

We have done this before

This is the norm

But still we feel the icy chill

Loss becomes our boss

Until time heals all!

A Poem: "One After The Other"

Trees like ghostly skeletons posing on the snow

Their quaking brown branches iced from below 

Gauzy shadows dancing in the dark

The eerily silent night seems quite stark

The crescent moon in hiding

Makes my fear worth chiding

This house of stone and mortar

Makes us notice our lives are like the water

No hands can hold them in a clutching grasp and a

Beloved Soul Departs with one last great gasp 

The vastness of space without moonlight 

Glowing pasty white through the night 

Has no cares or wanton desires of decay

Matters not how much we love

On Earth We cannot choose to stay 

A Poem "Avatars of Spring"

Avatars of Spring

Winter Storm Toby or not Toby

Whatever they call nor’easter 4

It’s Franken-spring and snowy

Having travelled to Philly at its start

It’s clear it’s not the usual 

Not for weak of heart

Another Love taken in rapture

Amidst turmoils, the Reapers surprise

Loving flesh taken back to pasture 

Grief darkens this somber snow

The thief of night delivered a shock

So soon, a second Mom to go? 

As the celestial equator changed its tilt

The Heavens called one more Love

Back to be enfolded in the stellar quilt

Leaving the children confounded 

This haunting dagger feeling

Surreal, unsteady and ungrounded 

Causing questions and uneasiness

Un-halting replays of cherished moments and

Lifeless form give rise to a certain queasiness

For loss, we are never ready

Especially when its all at once

Multiple shocks leave us unsteady

Beware beware The Ides of March

The SouthEast hurled a ball of white

Swirling murky clouds of thunder into the night

The strongest March nor’aster

“Skylar” brewed as Heaven

Called Mother during pre-Easter

Causing A white out in Maine

A blizzard in New England

In the NorthEast, a storm of pain

A nor’ester is when two storms collide

This truly was a “parent storm”

Warm meets cold and no longer thrives

Our human mystique illusion stole

Our flesh but turns to ash and

Misfortune takes its toll

Now Mom is a glowing star

Skylar took her stellar

Amidst the heavens not so far

We falter, we grieve, we console

Prayer cloaks us in virtue so

We give gratitude for this soul

The vernal equinox

Mercury’s in retrograde and

Fate delivers hard harsh knocks

©2018 Maria Carmichael DeSalvo