30.11.2018
On Leaving the Jetty and …
The boat trailer leaves ruts
In the sand to the jetty
And you will leave wet tracks
On the planks of the jetty
When you’ve cast off
You’re soon cast out
Your boat will leave behind
Quietness to the jetty
After trenching the water
A white cicatrix remains
You’re moving on
You’re a rover
Your tracks are gone by now
The water’s scar has healed
Where are you now, cast out?
And will you return some day?
Your swaying boat
Your balmy night
Your boat has only one bunk
With whom will you share the night?
Perhaps with the sunken moon
And sunrise still is hours away
Boat in the wind
Sun behind clouds
While you’re working on the boat
The day passes in a snap
And then it is night again
With no one sharing your bunk
Howl to the night
And tack your boat
You scar the water again
But the night will cover you
No use for the sextant now
Your boat will find the jetty
And miles to go
In a black night
Day has won over the night
The sun showers gold on you
Coming back to the jetty
You find what you were seeking
You leave the boat
Leave it behind
...
returning back
© 2018 Lothar M. Kirsch
29.11.2018
#poetslineprompts by our fabuluous hosts +karen hayward and +Ellen Waters
Clocks
without time
When the
sand clock failed
And the
sundial shattered
Did you
take the sand?
To where
did you carry it?
Into the
tents of the nomads
If you
drink goat's milk to pita
Time
vanishes with the stars
And
without time you may dream
The sand
is better in the eyes
Than
buried deep down in urns
Let go
of the sundial, my dear
And be
one with your dreams again
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© 2018 Lothar M. Kirsch
27.11.2018
Silent
Night
Thunderstruck
cry of the lily woman
Christmas
lights are shining
In
bizarre lighting events
In the
lost and desolate villages
Where
the edges of the houses glow
Where
reindeer compete with their Santas
To move
as little as possible
Too much
red and gold
For the
green-white lily woman
She
gazes after the aliens
As they
drag jute sack after jute sack
And
throw them on sledges
Christmas
night according to schedule
Better
no gifts or silent night
© 2018
Lothar M. Kirsch
From
Diefenbach (Eifel), 69 inhabitants … and not growing.
PS. Have
to leave right away, though "I have promises to keep, / And miles to go
before I sleep, ".
23.11.2018
The Sick Wolf
The lone wolf is sick now
And feels lonelier than ever
He has come out of the dark forest
Into the grey borders of the city
No howling anymore
Only whine and whimper
He’s prowling in garbage
The dogs used to look up to him
But when they see the limping wolf
They yelp at him in despise
The wolf, however, has his dreams
Of the forest and its’ prey
And when the moon is hiding
He silently prays for healing
Why should the wolf be different from us?
© 2018 Lothar M. Kirsch (pictures and poem)
14.11.2018
But Have Us Back
Please, nature, god or Mrs. Smith
Let the stars twinkle above
When we ride
Let there be scrunching snow
When we ride
Under the vats of our sled
Let us sing to the night
And songs soar high above
To the sky
Let us raise our merry cups
To the sky
When we ride into the winter
Let the sky be the limit
For our songs and our mirth
But have us back for Christmas
© 2018 Lothar M. Kirsch (poem and picture)
13.11.2018
Existentialistic Exhilaration
The blind man drinks black milk
And the sighted man drinks white
When the blind man speaks of white
He certainly means black
In the goblets of time
The liquid isn’t just one color
It’s black and white at the same time
Or like a crystal innumerable
The blind man drinks from the goblet
And he fills it more and more
The sighted man pours into the cup
And empties it more and more
Blind and sighted people stop drinking
But they continue to raise their goblets
© 2018 Lothar M. Kirsch (poem and pictures)
Ahwas (اهواز)
#PoetsLinePrompt
- "JOLLIFICATION"
Hosted
by our talented +linda bradley todd
Dance,
dance, dance
Dance,
dance, dance
But some
cling to their glasses
Even to
their tea cups
Tea and
scones
We
aren’t at a garden party
So leave
your tea cups
A
revolution is not a garden party
Dance, dance,
dance
Always
revolving, round and round
Jump up
from your glasses
Stop
stuffing yourselves with scones
Join the
party, let’s go
Dance,
dance, dance
Go wild
and crazy, dance
Dance at
the jollification
© 2018
Lothar M. Kirsch (poem)
© 2018 linda
bradley todd (picture)
08.11.2018
About Wind
I.
I’ve built a house
I’ve planted a garden
Also a water pond
I’ve enjoyed music and singing
I’ve hung pictures in the house
I drank red wine
Let women be around me
But everything was just for wind
II.
I’ve looked up to the wind
As he carried away the balloon with a child's
card
How he got caught in the leaves of the tree
How he sighed and sang
How he brought the rain
And pushed away the clouds again
And all that did the wind
Without making a grab
III.
Everything is vanity
According to the preacher
But I will gaze after the wind
I could not hold
Will fly with him
To the corners of eternity
© 2018 Lothar M. Kirsch (picture and poem)
07.11.2018
Trees shedding leaves
Days lost their warmth
Some daisies though
© 2018 Lothar M. Kirsch (picture and poem)
04.11.2018
Groping Along
At the edges of light
Groping along
The suffocated cries of
Faithlessness, hatred, delusion
The leaves from last year
Mouldering
You step on fallen things
Wide paths
In the darkness of the soul
Only a narrow path
Next to the abyss
© 2012 and 2018 Lothar M. Kirsch (picture and
poem)
03.11.2018
Transience
Shore trees
in the mirror
Of ripples
of the lake
The sky drags
clouds
Which the
wind will ruffle up
A leaf falls
from a tree
A sunbeam
through clouds
No cycle
Can last
forever
© 2018 Lothar M. Kirsch (picture and poem)
Night Gray
As shadows after shadow
Disappears into shadows
Punches of light
Getting lost in the tangle of shadows
Light absorbed in shadows
-: but
Out of the blackness
A dark gray has arisen
© 2018 Lothar M. Kirsch (picture and poem)
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