Dear beauteous ghost
Shining nowhere but in the dark
I saw you walking in air
When your light was trampled in the dust
You were at your best but dull and hoary
Mere glimmering and decayed.

Proudly you gathered, rank on rank
As angel in my brighter dream
Called to my soul when I slept
Some strange thoughts transcend
Like some bright stars above the dark abyss
Through the veil, the scary face
Through dust of conflict and flame
Through the voice, I cannot hear

Sun
Comes down
Through its rays
Bright streams of heat
Warming land and sea
Providing light of life
For man and beast and flowers
Glowing within our hearts and souls
Cleansing our minds and clearing our eyes
Enabling us to enjoy all God’s gifts

a guelder rose of a dark grassy,
a good father's lassie;
though she didn't go out at night,
but she carried some viburnum, bright.
merchants were buying- she didn't bargain
lads were begging-she didn't donate;
she tied her little feet with samite-
she kept it for her friend Johnny ,a good guy.

translation from Ukrainian "Ethnology for People" by Ivan Petryshyn

PALM

My palm, when an inked print is made
Is as stems growing in an Eastern jungle
An attempt to display those Nazca lines
Or an early drawn map of the Nile delta
Four main lines and many smaller ones
Each with significance to some who know
And to one side is a faint diagonal mesh
Perhaps a net to catch an interpretation

My heart was filled with so much joy and bliss
To meet my newest sweetheart miss

My great granddaughter’s beautiful face
Fills me with such happy grace

Her smile brightens up my darkest day
Her sparkling eyes asking me to stay

So much love, so much to give
Makes us want to really live

Her eyes sparkle with such force
Letting us to feel no remorse remorse

She brings to us a brand new soul
That allows our family to be whole

My wonderful child so precious and dear
Permits my heart to always be near

Buried deep within our inner being,
Borne of the truest highest nature,
Is the essence of our souls dreams,
Gifted to us by the divine creators.

The connection to our tangent of fate,
Defining reality and destined dynamics,
The capacity to become so truly great,
Harmonised to the energies of the planet.

To align the uniquest of our capacities,
And discover our innate true purpose,
Developing the profoundest abilities,
As our new talents rise to the surface.

Tomorrow,
We will be leaving
This fearful palace,
I still remember when I was a little child
I left my mother’s womb
And came to this palace,
I liked it at first sight
Despite people’s objections
I still entered the palace to work hard
The beautiful and grand palace I saw
When I was young is actually not real
Even though there are people coming and going
But the palace is a lonely place
Perhaps everyone is lonely
That is why there is jealousy and suspicions
Because of loneliness

Legendary tales, befitting oratures,
Gives me the sign of hope.
Pleasant folklores, dancing moonlights
Takes me through the realm of the waterfalls.
Amazing spectacles, spicy specials,
Adorned in seamless, stress- less climaxes.

Listen, o listen, to the splashing runs of eventide,
When the sun retires to fill its stomach,
Little birds chirping, streams clattering, rivers calling forth,
How the children dine in sands, playing joyfully.

Lost in the jungle.....
A drum roll
Beat display
Far from the grey sky
Of a thunderstorm
like a roaring lion
With God’s clapping hands
Bursting up
With the raindrop
Casting down to
filling the thirst quest
With a fresh dew
Of taste sip
Trap in
the jungle
Lost without
any direction
Heart race a mile
Without any trace
Desperate like drowning
in the deep ocean
Only echoes of a voice
Is the only companion
Shivering in the cold
Frozen like an ice

Bless me Father for all my fears
That cursed me throughout the years

To disobey my parents was a terrible sin
To be forever guilty no matter how good I’d been

Instead of being a source of joy and peace
Confession became a guilt that would never cease

As time went by and my guilt eroded
My thoughts of forgiveness exploded

I seek within myself real sins in my mind
That cause my soul the truth to find

Bless me Father for my sins so real
That now allows my soul to heal