Neil Ellman-

Earth Breathe

Earth Breathe

Earth

breathe

a breath

of blue

forests

inspire

green poetry

of air

endure

in fire

your moment

in the sun.

 

Heresy

Somewhere in the stars

among the bleached-white

bones of prophecy

where planets go to die

like doddering old men

spittle on their mouths

and the gnarr

of desperate words

we seek patterns

in chaotic stones

the scattered debris

of light and dark

and finding none

discover heresy.

 

Some Other Sun

He who would be

some other sun than this

one who babbles

spring

an old man and his

mistress moon

undress

she anticipates

his words…some

things

not of anything

other than the spots

on a bubbling face

he knows

she knows

of age

blistering age

some other sun

that he would be.

Neil Ellman lives and writes in New Jersey (USA).  Fast approaching his 500th published poem, his work appears in print and online journals throughout the world, from Australia to Zimbabwe.  The latest of his eight chapbooks, Convergence and Conversion, is now available from The Knives Forks and Spoons Press.