April is National Poetry Month!

Poem a day for the month! I missed yesterday…the first came flying in like a quick joke!

I’m going to try a long poem…so stanzas shared each day, but all belonging to one long piece. You get a two-fer today!

We The Mourners

We the mourners
roam the land
a planet-sized graveyard
witnessing the body as tombstone
inclined toward the sharp knife of
Love’s lapidarian urges
etching Time wounds
into our skin –
urging the most tears

We the mourners
swallow the sour spaces
between right & wrong
holding the knowledge
of their folly – fools alive
enough to write songs
poems plays paintings
in the lush language of loss
of lust of legends – heads
bowed into palm-praying
hands throats humming