MICHAEL LEE JOHNSON

 

 

Revolutionary Snow (V6)

 

Poem dancer,

ballerina dance

with each bullet

you stroke and glide

in a different movement.

Russian yellow is revolutionary white snow.

Am I really Yuri Zhivago–

hidden in this funeral procession,

blanked out by those pallbearers,

looking at my dead father?

Lifting him upstairs into

a Russian Orthodox Church,

only for the sake of snowflakes,

wilted flowers, suicide, a pouring

of aged Stolichnaya vodka on his casket,

only for the growth of rebellious youth,

sweet aging of wrath.

Before this last breath stopped

do punctuation marks explain his death?

Poem dancer Russian yellow

in white snow-fifty-fifty,

a vision blurred in a purple hue.

A poet dies alone in a naked shadow tonight.

In a movie viewed by himself,

reflections buried in shame,

that revolutionary snow.

 

Footnote: Loosely based on the movie, 1965, Dr. Zhivago's

anguish and the poetic ballerina Anna Pavlova and her departure,

from Russia, the revolution, permanently.

 

Dove Bar Poem

 

Ex-lover told me Dove dark chocolate

bars were suitable for lovers.

She ate dark Dove bars,

I ate light Dove milk chocolate.

She was healthy; I was sad.

We often got into fights over this.

She was manic, and I was depressive.

Sex was a bouncing basketball affair.

She was healthy, not knowing her disease.

I was sad, stealing apples

from Farmer John’s orchard.

Sleeping wherever

I found a pillow.

A pillow wherever found.

 

MICHAEL LEE JOHNSON

 

MICHAEL LEE JOHNSON has been published in 46 countries. He has been nominated for 8 Pushcart, 7 Best of the Net nominations.   Michael has 379 poetry videos on YouTube.