~Crystaline~

like wine
through water
you altered
the color of my mind
from its
frozen northern
crystalline drift
simple and true
arctic foxes
erase the snows
footprints

like a dream 
that’s always set 
just a little too late
a stain of time
stretches the days
like a lazy cat does
wake up 
and recount them
but if I told you
there would be a certain look 
on your face
and I know
what that look means
the pleasure 
of recognition

sacrifice
turns into
sea foam
shaping 
the shapeless
into form

the beauty of a moment

is that it’s fleeting

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

Repose

 

“Traveler repose

and dream

among my leaves”-William Blake

I realize

I’ve been stuck

in a dream reposed

time suspended

Greek statues

moonlit angles

in the quiet

trembling darkness

a bed

of velvet

dusted with the silhouettes

pf stars

I finally can

rest

when the dreams remain

even though

it’s the time

that defeats you

there will always

be a path

without a walk

without a direction

when I can’t sleep

I think of water

whispering

and lulling

against

each other

transparency

iis the order of the days

hold me

under the same sky

in the cradle

of your arm’s

to live

without time

the echo

of watery glass

a sigh

between the eruption

of emotion

a repose

a break

from my demons

and secrets

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Blackout Poem 2~

Blackout Poem 2

even though

things  end

soon enough

doesn’t mean

they don’t suck

a woven tapestry

unraveling

pale edges

slowly

like whispers

of stardust

newly fallen

if the  light doesn’t shine

and our paths don’t cross

we'll stumble

from the clouds

like new fawns

confused and blinking

in the sun

crumbling together

like Greek statues

maybe now

we can see

you don't get credit

for doing

the right thing

for the wrong reasons

the first rule of elegance

is never to panic

when the lips of a flower

open

with a lulling

sigh

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~