Four Poems by Merritt Waldon

 

 

Southern Indiana sleeps beneath the snow ___ 

 

Irascible drift 

Mind surprise again white shroud 

Sunlight crawls frozen in the 

December hues of wind 

Drift irascible slide 

While sloshing footsteps  

Travel homeward 

The cold air howling in the  

Pure white vision  

Southern Indiana sleeps 

Beneath the snow  

 

  

Mind percolates the poem__ 

 

English breakfast steams  

Long eight hours in feet  

Mind percolates the poem  

Another cold December morning steeps   while lungs suck 

Mentholated air  

Another hollow Indiana night 

Dreaming w machines    

 

 

Love moans __ 

 

Long draining memory 

Melted to silence 

She whispers something coy 

My hand trembles against her skin  

The lingering taste of blackberries 

On her lips  

Revives this heart from last  

Summer air 

When in the embrace of night 

Love moans

Sitting in the darkness of predawn__for the Goddess

Early spring on its way, barefoot walking across dew covered

Grass

I hear the Goddesses song arising like mist & fog

From the earth & water

Her voice resonating like cathedral bells

Within the heart

I sit in the darkness of predawn beneath a Catalpa

Tree playing a tin whistle

Trying to keep rhythm with the Mothers dance

While a small group of deer

Cautiously stroll by   randomly looking each one

At the strange form from where the music plays

Integrating with the beauty of new life

Merritt Waldon born 1974. Lives in Southern Indiana USA.

He has been in many print and online anthologies and journals. He has five books published. Oracles From A Strange Fire by Merritt Waldon & Ron Whitehead published by Cajun Mutt Press. Pistol City Blues published by Dead man's Press Ink. Madison Street Screams & Smoke Break Poems published by Dead man's Press Ink. Recovering Roar: Haiku and other small poems published by Dumpster Fire Press.Poems by Sourav Sarkar and Merritt Waldon published by Cooch Behar. He is a regular in American and others anthologies. A permanent member of Whisky City Press..he is also a regular of Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts.