CONE FLOWER, OPEN VALENTINE, BLUEBIRD, CORONA, 4 concrete poems

OPEN VALENTINE

My heart on a string

tugging the heartstrings

of the sky

but the pen no longer writes

my heart….

Archer and arrow pierces

feather

feather

feather

CORONA

The corona of the sun

shone like a diamond ring.

we could see the mountains

of the moon.

The moon passed in front of the sun

it was as if time stood still.

I'd never witnessed 

an eclipse like that

totality

and when night fell

again in the morning

the birds they all

stopped singing

and so did the tide.

All was still.

Fish slept in my arms

like pale autumn leaves

their gills, small half-moons

Moon and stars, the sky

was one vast quilt of stars

and then the corona

burst into petals.

I was looking at 

vast tongues of fire licking

the sky.

It was as if…

we could see the mountains

of the moon.

The corona of the sun

shone like a diamond ring.

CONE FLOWER

in the sky

and my dreams

are like thorns

in the book

of memory

the petals

they shine

like gold

in the sun

and my heart 

is like kite

cone flower

flying

stem grows

to the earth

BLUEBIRD

May the bluebird of happiness

fly fly fly

wing wing wing

fly fly fly

eye

tail tail tail

feathers feathers feathers

delicate toes legs

delicate toes legs

up your nose

and may your nose

fly off into the sunset.

I'm not sure when these concrete poems were done, at Glenview School, possibly spring 2018.