Poem: Brave Universe

 

Brave Universe

 

breeze reaches

into the amphitheater of the sky,

its arms as wide as children’s,

full of rhymes and whispers

of sagacious leaves.

 

dawn melts

a cloak of nightjar candlewax,

revealing the luminal ribs of all things,

which parade alertful with light

toward evening’s cave of blooming purple.

 

every color known

to feathers and lovers

becomes the tears

of merging molten dancers.

 

in the half cowl

of young meditative eve,

a festival of fireflies

weaves soaring arias

through balconies of half-seen stars.

 

for a moment,

it is like witnessing

the loyalty of truth,

so joyous and tearful--

the sparkling thoughts and tender hopes

of a brave universe.

 

 

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