It is the brown season.
Stalks of lilies hard, orange flowers long fallen;
Cold shells where purple flowers dusted your yellow wings
as you probed for nectar, gladly given.
The angled sun brings light but not heat.
These thoughts are sterile weeds, withering all that grows; too easy to succumb.
Cold creeps from the soil leaving fragile frosty webs, steals through roots
to suck dry the stems where you sought life.
And yet you stay, flitting among the dead flowers, now hard, protecting their life within, needing heat and touch to flourish. They need you as you need them; shared devotion. Look, you say, look at me. Offering, again offering, the parts of you that bring life.
Love wordless, thought within a shell, needing nectar. A sweet chance, again.
What holds you here, when the others have flown?
The touch of you thrills, the wisp of your voice echoes,
the memories sustain; your crystal eyes.
Once we danced, twirled and touched in the tides of the full moon; were once skin and tongues and fingers probing, shared soft voices, the touch of you thrilling; once it drew us, we the sweaty beings making life, descendant in the tingling madness. Once; now parted, more dream, than real, less sweet than bitter.
Now the moon has grown small, slivered, the tides withdrawn in a gathering chill, the crazy pull abated. In this dark absence, I am rooted.
You, in sunlight, your battered wings caressed.
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About michaelstephendaigle
I am the author of the award-winning Frank Nagler Mystery series. "The Swamps of Jersey (2014); "A Game Called Dead" (2016) -- a Runner-Up in the 2016 Shelf Unbound Indie Author Contest; "The Weight of Living" (2017) -- “The Weight of Living” was awarded First Place for mysteries in the 2017 Royal Dragonfly Book Award contest;
Named A Notable 100 Book, Shelf Unbound 2018 Indie Book Awards;
Named a Distinguished Favorite, 2018 Independent Press Awards.
Named a Distinguished Favorite in the 2018 Big NYC Book Contest.
Named a Finalist in the 2019 Book Excellence Awards.
Named A Gold Star Award winner in the 2020 Elite Choice Book Awards
Named a Book Award Winner in 2021 by Maincraft Media Fiction Book Awards;
The Red Hand (2019) a Distinguished Favorite in the 2019 Big NYC Book Contest
Named Second Place winner for mysteries in the 2019 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards
Named a Notable 100 Book in the 2019 Shelf Unbound Indie Book Awards
Named a Distinguished Favorite in the 2020 Independent Press Awards
A Nominee in the 2020 TopShelf Book Awards
Named A Gold Star Award winner in the 2020 Elite Choice Book Awards
Dragony Rising (2022) First Place for Mysteries in the 2022 Royal Dragonyfly Book Awards; named a Notable 100 Indie Book in the 2022 Shelf Unbound Indie Book Awards; A Distinguished Favorite in the 2023 Independent Press Awards. A Distinguished Favorite in the 2023 Big NYC Book Awards.
Good day! Do you use Twitter? I’d like to follow you if that would be okay.
I’m undoubtedly enjoying your blog and look forward to new
posts.
thanks.. Twitter: @50eagle50…Michael Daigle
Hmm it seems like your blog ate my first comment (it was super long) so I guess I’ll just sum it up what I submitted and say, I’m thoroughly enjoying your blog. I as well am an aspiring blog writer but I’m still new to everything. Do you have any tips and hints for inexperienced blog writers? I’d definitely appreciate it.
Thanks for reading … the best advice is just start writing… there a inexpensive platforms to start…this is WordPress… and design a site that you like..worry about content at first rather than design but think logically about the features you choose to make it easy to navigate..once you settle in post as often as possible…good luck