fire on ice

from an unyielding sky

her resolute race west paused

here

her fire dances across

the melting ice

her glimmering flames

more than illusion

splash nothing but cold light

flickering  against this wet veneer

beckoning evening

her light lay puddled

in momentary reflection

reckoning this day with twilight

Barry DeCarli

On Hammond Pond

Goshen, MA

February 3-4, 2016

©Barry DeCarli

no teaser

called out

for teasing with my words

a faker fashioning phrases

to lure a trusting mind

into my poetic snare

I’d rather be

a magician pulling a thesaurus

out of a hat

a dreamer catching a falling star

holding its rhyme

in a Mason jar

a lamplighter reaching

up to light a circle

of night air

a patch of dark ground

a way home

but not a teaser

keeping a secret

or trying to deceive

with my images that anyone may see

my metaphors as deep as a mirror…

Barry DeCarli

August 15-21, 2015

On Hammond Pond

©2015 Barry DeCarli

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