A short one...

Summer Haiku

a night piano

the full moon behind a cloud –

solstice complement

Summer Kiss

Not sure if this is done yet, but it's the first Pantoum I've ever attempted:

Vignette While Driving

Sunlight on their smiling faces

they sat rubbing shoulders on the summer grass

under a bright bus stop sign

as I drove by on my way to somewhere else.

They sat, shoulders touching on summer grass

sharing a moment that made them laugh

as I drove away toward somewhere else

I saw her soft smile and bend toward him.

Sharing a moment of laughter

I caught them there, a vignette of hope and love,

she bent toward him with a soft smile,

and brushed away a strand of hair that had fallen on her face.

I caught them there, a snapshot of hope and love

reflected in their smiles and their youth,

she brushing a strand of hair from her face,

he turning for the kiss that waited there.

I saw myself reflected in their smiles and youth

and remembered as I drove away to somewhere else,

I, too, once turned for an anticipated kiss,

soft as a smile on the summer grass.

Solstice Again

Here's day nine's submission of NaPoWriMo (a poem a day for the month of April in honor of National Poetry Month). This one is a little early, but it's for  a competition I'm entering:

Solstice Again

A swing in space

trapped in this orbit

circles within circles

bounded by billions of stars

there, and there and there

each one alone

   on fire,

as if worlds around them

depended on it.

The cold rock that rises

on the eastern horizon

mirrors only reflected light,

makes poets turn pen to page,

lovers move close,

wolves howl.

On the other side of this giant

the fiery ball

burns.

We sit in the dark

awaiting the dawn -

the slow painful roll of a planet

cradling blue water against impossible odds.

Here, breathe this air,

measure everything:

the height of the tides,

the speed of the wind;

  - the length of the days -

mark them

against our own.