BONNIE JENNINGS

Bonnie Jennings

MY FIRST POEM OF 2017 1.1.2017

Oh, The Heavens

Delightfully The Heavens summon me

to dance with the light beams of The Moon

How mystically you sparkle stretching your arms

embracing the evening of our enchanting Rumba

You take my breath away using your brilliance

dancing we join the vibrating cosmos

The curtain begins to lower in The West

and holding hands we bow in reverence

Until later ~ We wave goodbye

And then, the curtain of The East arises

The Sun makes its entrance while birds sing

When by evening the lights lower

The Sun bows and bids adieu

And you ~ Mr. Moon will wane fore awhile

I will think fondly of the dance we had

Then, when you begin to wax, once again

I’ll awaken waiting to Rumba ~ untamed

Until then ~

The Sun, takes lead and grasps my hand

A GENTLEMAN SILHOUETTE

Damp leaves fallen everywhere

Silently he who stood in prayer

Somewhere ~ pondering, “elsewhere?

Could I have come from?” In despair,

He looks thinking, “is this a nightmare?”

Unrecognizing the odors and the auras

Alone, by the park bench now worn

Etched in wood were cursive initials

Swollen wet wood had but erased them

And there he stands, once debonaire

Only now merely a ghost caring an umbrella

The parallel alliance, the romantic bond

Passed into independent realms

Perhaps, time and measurements

Will lock into the same grid

But, until then, he just stands

Silently pondering the else-wheres.

Haunting the bench

Amidst fallen wet leaves

Stands a silhouette

URDU FOR MY MOTHER, BABE

Pour, into my cup, come in the slumbers of dawn

Cast away the ash and sackcloth, granted life

The pheonix landed to visit awhile

Tomorrow the bird takes flight

Bonnie Jennings