Sky Visions

    

Sky Visions

I

Green leaves shine against sky.

Yellow sunsets in smog.

Deep blue indigo of twilight.

II

Big sky captured in pyramid form

which she clangs and clangs…

Triangle wrangles the boys home.

 III

Still pond reflects sky

studded with puffs of white cloud.

Peace prevails before winds.

  IV

The lilacs’ blooms taken by wind

for a moment speckled

the mid summer sky.

 V

At dusk stars appear one by one

like magic. A child looks up

begins to count.

© 2012 Joanne Elliott       

Poem for New World Creative Union’s Wednesday Wake-Up Call…

The prompt:

Take the following items and create something from them: prose, a poem, a sketch, a watercolor, et cetera. All of the following items must be a part, and distinguishable, of whatever you create:

1. The colors yellow, blue, and green

2. A triangle.

3. Peace

4. Lilacs.

5. A child.

The Return of the Equinox

Nova Scotia Fall 2002 - Photo by Charles Elliott/Beautyseer

Fall comes and I who was to be

an Equinox child now lay claim

to Virgo ways, though my soul

still lives in Libra.

Light changes, stands still

for a moment and I wonder

why I couldn’t wait for Autumn

instead was born on an afternoon

the moon in its dark phase,

the mystic’s vision inward

the Virgin gathering wheat

instead of scales weighing.

I anticipate this turn of season

this descent into darkness

to harvest, to ruminate, to learn,

to understand how to let go

a red leaf falling

falling a great distance

in order to return to the land

whose stars I was born under.

© 2012 Joanne Elliott

My mother left the U.S. when she met my father, a Canadian from Nova Scotia. Near the end of her pregnancy with me they were visiting her relatives in Detroit…I guess I decided that is where I wanted to be born and so was born two weeks early. Many years later I returned to the U.S., though born here I had never lived here until thirteen years ago. I moved to So Cal when I met Charles/Beautyseer online.

This poem is dedicated to my parents and to both of my homelands.