Let's produce a cloud

Let's produce a cloud
and cover it all white
(it has to fit the sky)

We'll settle on the stars
in the pitch and deep abyss
not too bright, not too bliss.
(constellations aren't always worn)

We can milk a day and call it sun
a loft, our beechnut barn
not too soft, not too calm.
(farm crops grow wild awhile)

Raise a rainbow for me, m'dear
the sky will die with shame
neon tints of silver flints
forest blue and marlin green
ashen brick, and sullen grey
a casket full of colors.
Bronzen hinge and handle
velvet, felt a bit
jester june, and marple steed
masquerade the mortal marriage
a union of cumulus, debris, and stone.

even lightning cannot describe
what's meant when the cloud can't arrive
and rivers who overflow their peaks, are creeks
when no respect goes to the stars that don't reflect
a mighty gale blows baby breath
when dairy dawn delivers but froth

am I to build the foundations of the sky?
when I have left the clouds to dry

am I to tame the fiery stars
when I am quenched by every char

and sun whose udder be my design?
as caged and jailed I do confine

Once given the sky, I bowed to receive
locked in a box though, never turned the key.

Last Night I Fell in Love

Last night I fell in love with Love,
and though it is out of fashion
I did not meet that special one
who filled my heart with passion.
 
If last night I fell in love, my love
like a star who onces shines
tonight it's fallen love, 
then falls into the dust and dies.

Doggone Dream'in

The dog did dream

as he lay down

a heavy sleep.

No noise no sound.

The comandante

had poured an ale

to quench the thirst

that made him pale.

But not the music

of the box

nor gifted craft

of love not lost

could shake his bone

that set like fire

of steal and meat

and rage and pyre.

Although the ale did

quench at first,

his soul did not

return from worse.

A stolen love had

played its part

and with it came

a stone of heart.

The dog awoke to feel

the cold

buried deep

beneath the bone.

But do not pity

his soul long

his body of black

was made in Hong Kong.