Sunday, May 6, 2018

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







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