So long May

Thank you all, Maydayers new and old, for joining in this year's collaboration. It's been a pleasure reading your poems and comments. Let the creativity continue!
Until 2016, Angeline

Beyond comprehension

The suited man at my door

jabs the fine print between

pasturelands and sparrow,

demands I repeat

the correct name for God,

walks away.

The trembling usher at church

has been married 56 years today.

He whispers, I’m afraid to wish

for more. The years

are good so long

as the mind is clear.

The woman in the care

home couldn’t tell you the name

for the soft thing that holds

her up. We asked her to pray,

she folded her hands.

The child’s tumour disappeared.

birdsong lovesong

how the birds have awakened in me
the spring that brought them home
and reminded me to sing my song
not because i can nor i should
but because we all carry songs

raise your right hand, swear
allegiance to the flag
of my tongue, my heart
sing your gloria sing
the mermaid's song

neither fish nor woman
still her scales shine
pentatonic in the dawn
wreck yourself upon my
rocks each sailors son

or gentler than clouds
cerulean seas do swell
crescendo on my beach
launch your vessel
from this shore

until we sing
no more