Stanzaic Stylings

Magenta Skies   Cold slips in, raining on Sunday, and I wish the sun would shine. Somber clouds are shattering, tears cascading into my wine.   As the wind whips through the maples, I hear distant voices calling. But this attic is dark and empty, and the raindrops just keep falling.   And I’m dreaming of magenta skies, the sunset unfolding before my eyes, shimmering sea reflecting moonlight, holding you close all through the night.   Growing older as the days go by, heavy feet tread on sodden ground. Watch the geese fly in parallel lines, tracing their path without a sound.   As wanderlust stirs in my bones, these chains will never make me stay. Seeds of hope sprout in a heart like mine… someday, somehow I’ll find my way.   Will you stay, will you stay… stay in the shadows of yesterday? Will you follow, will you follow… follow me into tomorrow?   And I’m dreaming of magenta skies, the sunset unfolding before my eyes, shimmering sea reflecting moonlight...

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The Currents Will Shift   Under a brilliant sun every day yet still half blind   The soul remains eager but the flesh is far weaker than any point that proverbs or psalms could try to get across   Even what’s written in stone will soon enough crumble to dust   I’ve never heard a truth in my life that wasn’t born from the ashes of a lie   Oh, joy! Oh, woes! Oh, please just hold so so steady at the helm of your ship for one more breath Bio: Scott Thomas Outlar hosts the site  17Numa.com  where links to his published poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, reviews, live events, and books can be found. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Scott was a recipient of the 2017 Setu Magazine Award for Excellence in the field of literature. His words have been translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Persian, Serbian, Albanian, and Afrikaans. His show Songs of Selah airs weekly on Diversity of the Minds Radio Network.    

From  American Labor:  An Episodic Epic James Matles Some of you may know of Joseph Welch, the Army attorney who, in the idiom of the early twenty-first century, took down McCarthy in a public hearing You may not know, because it was in executive session even though I asked it to be public, that I had also done so in November of the previous year There was a union-representation election coming up in a few weeks,                                         and the drunken bully and his pet boy Cohn were doing their best to influence the outcome "When you accuse me of spying, and when you accuse decent working people in Lynn and Schenectady of spying and sabotage, you are lying, Senator McCarthy" "You are doing a dirty thing for GE . . ., browbeating decent working people" Though he knew I was onto him, he kept yammering away, so I answered back: "Any citizen is decent unless he is c...

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      Wild Flower There among the weeds Your beauty stands all alone The promise of life     Thoughts of You Gray and purple hues Color the landscape anew Lost in thoughts of you                  Rain The soft tap of rain Falling upon the window Soothes my weary soul       Still... I Wait The days are so long The nights go by too quickly Still... I wait for you         Hope Against the current Into your heart I will swim With caution and hope https://zolanymph1.blogspot.com/ Poet, writer, aspiring novelist, daydreamer and believer in the impossible Contributing artist @hitRECord.org and Scriggler.com Published in the following Ezines, Publications and Online Journals: Antarctica Journal Duane's PoeTree In Between Hangovers Stanzaic Stylings Poetry Poetics Pleasure Whispers