A Bowl Full of Stars

It’s February friends. And I had such a good time last year, I’m going to do it again - a poem a day for the month.  Here’s my first poem. You can find last year’s poems at http://www.thebreathandtheclay.com/store                     

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Bowls full of dreams 

 Bowls full of hours 

      Bowls of our 

        Memories,

               Of 

         Crushed 

         Aromatic 

          Powder.

Acrylic tongues 

Painting the wind, 

floating embers 

Take the shape of animals; 

Antelopes 

          And arrows.

Rejuvenating our friends

With tales of cunning,

Reminding ourselves 

We are more than our moments 

Allow us to hold, 

Retreating softly 

Into blankets of 

Cottonwood shadows.

Our words are enough 

To raise an army from the ashes 

To rattle skin upon our bones 

To paint one another’s faces 

In azurite and lapis, 

To recapitulate the meaning 

We squeeze from our sadness. 

Bowls full of stars 

A geometry of souls 

Here is the initiation 

Here is the prayer 

The rite of passage  

We are crossing the equator. 

Our universe whispers 

It’s confetti of light. 

Golden Bowls full of fire 

Golden Bowls full of night. 

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