W.I. Stoneberger Poems

April rain
masks
the moon,
but its madness
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The robin don't mind
if it's the poor side of town
and everything is run down
gonna sing anyway.
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The poem on the page
wields its words
into the scatter
of my mind.
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It sings to me
- the tree, the window tree.
Its leaves open as melodies
to the sheen of Spring.
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It seems so natural
with the moon bobbing on top
of the water
like a drunken rowboat,
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Fields
almost green
almost gray
streaked with purple stripes (henbit)
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like a bird in flight
like a butterfly
there's a vision of you
that dances in my mind
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to be the moon
withdrawing
into itself
waning
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Stockpiles of syllables
fill the four chambers
pumping out rhythms
that reach into her depths
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'Honey,
don't be talking like that.
All that stuff about war & hate & crime
& what it's like out there.
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