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Nelson D Reyes
The Backyard Walkway
Poetry Everywhere
You retreat from yourself disengage your labyrinthine mind
Precisely before dinner you sweep the backyard walkway
Routine but not the quiet meditation you get walking the way
Hardly any cottontail rabbit past twilight usually earlier dined
A little breeze not windy few leaves to clear done in no time
The mourning doves wing whistled to roost another shrub
Lizards nowhere in sight visiting egret flew back to creek hub
Squirrels nest tucked-in chipmunks in burrows cheeks sublime
All quiet you hear you feel a state of peace around the backyard
All creatures settling for a moonlit night once more entertained
Lullabied to a dream by crickets and frogs into a symbiotic refrain
To a wonderful morrow when familiar sweet noises songs of birds
Break with the dawn a sunny day at hand the walkway again a ply
Beach pink butterflies appear flower’s delight as a lizard rolls an eye
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(C)NDR8.1.2017
Photo: ndr
Dream Statues
“Give me your...”
Castles
in
the
air
Skyscrapers
reaching
dream
clouds
Liberty
steadfast
Sweaty poor unwanted trash___
Come live love sustained freedom
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(C)NDR9.9.2017
Photo: NPS Statue of Liberty Images
Cosmic Fire
Beds Of Hot Coals
A cosmic gift to Neanderthals prayer candles in cathedrals
A classical element nemesis of water equally complementary
Combusts rapidly flashes on perfect ambient conditions
Predator to oxygen sucks heat devours flammables
A Rembrandt frame highlighted in primal Van Gogh wrath
Waves of flaming amber red iron skyward spreading fast
Infrared heat wind blown scorching the far and the surround
Crackling ashes popping in the sky like muted fireworks
From nature’s wonderland habitats of jinns fauna and flora
Libra’s autumn colors die out against Leo’s summer blazing hues
Earth’s blood globs sizzle up glowing from the sapphire ocean
Traces jet like in flaming brilliant orange zigzagging to steppes
Like glow in the dark yellow centipedes climbing the mountains
Engulfing greens the bushes burping on grasslands and wetlands
Sparkling earth to tinders a vomit dark yellow death valley unfolds
No Nero was not playing the lyre neither was there a pagan
purifying carnival ritual
A magical glow sustains life a friend yet a foe a trident reaper
Holy in the home hearth and altar spiritual in all prayer temples
The flame of life eternal since Chaos breathed light to Aether
Heavenly light a spark that greets a new day a new birth
A celebration of life lit as well in the acceptance of death
Incanted in rituals summoned by worshippers to cleanse sins
Sweet healing incense bathing your soul as you sit in mudra
Naked in bed you surrender to the warmth of lavender oil candles
You begin to feel the divine power potency of the teardrop soft flames
Soothed and relaxed you rid the blemishes of the day’s excesses
Like Zeus with his nine muses and the magic wand thunderbolt
Sun the patriarch of the solar family of nine primordial siblings
Brings order a convivial carousel among children gathered around
Succoring them unlike Zeus with the vital force of life mighty element
The soul the innermost core Heaven’s Solar Wind the Cosmic Fire
And the mortals continue the yin yang rituals to purity their existence
Walk bare feet over beds of hot coals Prometheus' gift Zeus denied
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(C)NDR7.29.2017
Photo: ndr topsail nc sunset, "the sun the witch the reaper"
Video: YouTube "Walk on Fire"
Naked Sky Dance
A Galactic Milonga
Here comes the black new Moon
Facing the Sun from its usual side
Smiley face to Earth unblinking naked
Eyes the Sun slowly penetrating the soul
Of this gentle Earth oriented silver disc
Time marking chameleon in bright sky
Unseen yet solid as a tar hockey puck
A black Selene will hold and slow
Dance Helios on a journey across the azure sky
Over millions of enchanted fields of bright
Black-eyed Susans and crimson Sweet Williams
The meadows of majestic sunflowers lilies selfies all
Peeping Tom Earth again front and center
To the slow love dance as naked Selene
Takes a bite of nude Helios’ cheek
Lips caressing hissing up to his ear ‘take me!’
Seemingly in the dark yet exposed
Spotlighted like the Milonga dancers
Accordion strains to a passionate nascent snail
Tango moves now in stark noir et blanc ‘yes!’
Ah... the mating of a galactic love in the dark of day
A monochrome time lapse solar touching in shadows
A spectral of emotions in full infinity folded embrace
The song birds roost roosters crow on cue bats fly wild
A love our Sun our Moon the stars their queens consummate
To our delight to our moments of lost innocence offered
A 'ceasefire’ framed timely to sweetly savor though briefly
The mystery of deep twilight against the shimmering halos of the Sun
In this yet evolving Cosmos from primordial Chaos repeated
Still the deities of night and day distant ever from the ten muses
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(C)NDR6.24.2017 1:50AM
Photo: ndr
Cotton Candy
Sky Tsunami
Sky
tsunami
swirls
East
west
cotton
candy
like
Sea
clouds
broke
water
Highways now flowing rivers
Life conveyors welcome sweet
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(C)NDR9.1.2017
Photo: NDR Top Sail Beach NC
The Frog and The Turtle
A Pristine Refuge
There is a bull frog on top of the diamond back
That is on a rock island in the middle of a creek
That meanders toward and under the bridge cheek
Where a few ducks and ducklings are preening
The turtle and the frog some ducks quietly watching
Not a quibble the terrapin seemed oblivious of the bull
Absorbed about something gaze fixated up the creek
A white elegant egret stealthily walking without a creak
Along the water edge long neck moving back and forth
Legs up and down ever soft ripples make a circle court
The translucent green tea stream silently slowly flowing the all
Beneath arches of shade trees that are gently kissing
The creek with soft pink shadows rock water gliding
From the amber cloud streaked red oolong setting sun
A pristine scene of eons past repeats itself all and one
Life through time has honed all creatures to connect with nature clock
Chirping songbirds scatter around the bushes socializing
Black birds skip-flying the canopies loud songs ever groaning
Noises a sweet reminder day is done choices made twilight comes
Smiling subway humans surface to happy hour retreat plums
Such is the dance of life improvising ever jazz rocking the waltz
Common with all beings the communion with nature with earth’s
A ceaseless journey of faith trials joy family security and revival
A pilgrimage ever searching for love a home a mate for survival
The bull frog has stopped calling kissed the turtle flew to a bushy site
Cricket serene roosting by the creek under starlit sky a refuge paradise
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(C)NDR8.5.2017
Photo: NDR Oak Creek Sedona AZ
Video: ndr. Ducks at Aliso Creek, Laguna Woods, CA 50 sec
Sacred In Your Heart
Immortalized
There is a sacred place
Immortalized
In my soul
I love you
You gave me your all
Your love unconditionally
Lately I saw
In your eyes the sadness
Sorrow I felt
You waited
Eternally for the doors to open
Noises familiar to you
Me to appear be with you again
You soulfully
Greeted not in your usual
Happy way
Loud nasal joyful voice
I felt sadden
Still not fully
Comprehending
Your sorrow your pain
I let you out
Fresh air you need
I thought invigorating
Put a smile on your face
Even nudged you
Not knowing the pain
Your eyes are showing
Not at the moment you softly said no
Deeply in pain
Now I know
You sought comfort
The love you know always there from me
Yes you have
Without reservation like yours
This place in my soul
Sacred as you hold a place immortalized
In your heart for me
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(C)NDR7.22.2017
Photo: ndrTopsailBeachNC
Fix
loving care
thank you
For
taking care of me
In more ways
than one
Truly
concerned
And
loving
You are
(C)NDR6.13.2017
Photo: ndr
