Distant Whispers Spark a Burning Light

Distant Whispers Spark a Burning Light

listening for whispered light;

hearing the wind's song

sing through the tall grass,

breathing cadence sways

moon flower's essence shines,

illumined spirit beckons,

across terrestrial fields

in the space between distant shorelines

the long and winding surrender,

moon up to sundown;

love ricochets

the faint reflection of the stars

setting fire to the flames 

roused spirit is drawn to life,

daylight through the night;

knowing essence of souls

enchant the spark turned fire ...

Wish Upon a Tossed Coin

Wish Upon a Tossed Coin

The blue moon’s shining essence

Ricochets off the twilight mirror pond

Fireflies dart and hover

Over her celestial

Looking glass mirage

~

A shadow pitches coins

Into Mother Nature’s soul

Each set free one by one

Wishing one single pining dream would come true

shining throughout forevermore

~

Hushed sighs exhale secret wishes

Heard from the hidden shoreline

A stone’s throw away

You can’t ever get back the wish

After the coin is thrown

~

The coin’s splash dimples

The still water surface

Echoing within the silence

With the verve 
of a subtle symphony
~

Driving the rippled rings

Across the mirror ponds still waters

Fading into the distant horizon 
further than beyond

~

If a star falls into vast still waters

Does anybody hear the sound?

We are only one starlit shining coin’s wish away from

Driving the rippled still water's hope on forever

Through the end of time . . .

© 2013. . . Harlon Rivers

Under The Moonlit Night

Under the Moonlit Night

The enchantment of the moonlit night

has a thousand eyes naturally aglow

Wild Irises glisten from within the impractical magic

The laughing owls pass midnight

basking in the illusions of their shadows,

echoing their crystal clear reverie through the trees

~

Nature gently sways in the swirling tempest breeze

drawing a shower of moon beams down

from far beyond the cosmic grandeur

Wisps of the slumbering sky unfurl

teardrops drunk by earth’s sod

Nocturnal rhythm's acoustical wings

softly chirp a bashful courting song

~

Laughter rings out blissfully alight

As if it were a joyful song of the wind

Mother Nature swings gracefully to and fro

Her leafy willow’s arms bend ardently

as she groans and moans from her silent toil

Passionately bearing the weight

of the celestial light's load

~

Moonlight moves across the shadows

unveiling an adoring love born beneath the trees

Two shadows emerge as one

from deep inside the secrets kept by the sleeping wilds

Reborn like enlightened life under the starlit night

transformed by a moment’s mystical magic

within the enchanting forest yesternight ...

©  2012~2013 … Harlon Rivers  …All Rights Reserved

Authors note:  Since some of my narrative prose poems get lengthy, I am taking shorter parts out in part and tweaking to become stand alone work...This was taken from "Enchanted Wilderness" written months ago...