Cloud From out My Mouth

Out from my window my eyes search.

Affixed on the arms of an elm tree

They follow a tumbling leaf to the ground.



Cedar scents swallow, softly, the

Scant supposition from the

Leaves of the gently swaying elm.



A raven a crow and a dove

Flit a crackling perch up above.

Though the dove cannot find

The three of them bind

To never let push come to shove.



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Cloud from out my mouth escapes,

A shout from out my lips now breaks,

And silence, now, it slowly takes,

The cloud from out my mouth.



The coldest time comes in the year,

Heat we all begin to fear,

In and out, found in a sneer,

The cloud from out my mouth.



Gently fall, we, to damnation,

Our shortened life we try to hasten,

A subtle slave to such temptation,

The cloud from out my mouth.



Within our wine the true black fly,

Our lungs and blood to sanctify,

And yet a thousand children cry,

The cloud from out my mouth.



My words, my thoughts, emotion true

I try my best to pass to you

Though they, my thoughts, do misconstrue

The cloud from out my mouth.







Now I lay, a crisp elm leaf,

My heart, my mind, my soul bequeathed,

For in my mind is life’s motif,

My heart and soul the disbelief,

The cloud from out my mouth.



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Out from my window my eyes try to find.

Affixing on axes with nowhere to grind,

Tracing the breath which a lover hath sighed.



Ashen scents call, quietly, the

Craven inquisition calmed only by the

Leaves of the gently turning elm.



Once there stood a raven

And thrice there perched a crow

And both of them had hurried

In hopes that none would know.

For in-between their feathers,

Twixt and ‘tween their wings

Were the feathers of a pure white dove

Who’s life had not been seen.



While up they flew into the sky

And the sun had quickly set,

A single plume of feathers fell,

A new life not to beget.

Beside a rolling cedar tree

The feathers’ home devout.

I viewed it through a thickn’ing fog,

The cloud from out my mouth.

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