Patti Masterman Poems

Star forever in the heavens
Gleam forever in God’s eye
Sparkle down upon our dreaming
Where the glow becomes the sky.
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Why is it the past must have a pedigree
But the present will always be an upstart?
Why are worn things antiqued, but new things, just cheap?
The young things, untested; but the old things, we keep?
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Hospitals full of cancer patients,
In too much pain to scream or cry

Suicides walk long corridors of alone;
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Tiny, inviolate spark
Born in the eye of god
Before eternity started revolving
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Late afternoon shadows;
Clouds are hurrying towards
The far horizon.
Dying piano note,
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In the presence of another, I find
That by suspending my own
Judgments, and listening
With the inner pulse while
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Bright colors and words swirling round us;
Mother and me, passing like a slow parade.
She, veering left, while I floated on by
Like a small, fascinated child.
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Sucked the soul out of my mother:
Floating balloon of get well wishes,
Tied to her bed rail.
Above her, all night, it hovered
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In hesitations grasp, I lament your departure;
Never sure from moment to moment, what was,
As to what I lost; no iron-clad guarantee;
Nor a signed contracts untimely forfeiture.
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The world has a soul
To which we pay toll;
Shoes have a tongue
Suppers get sung
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