autumn -
the master spreads his
orange robe

crippled mother
the black of her eyes capture
a sketch of rainclouds

I swim inside the shadow of clouds
autumn takes hold and
on the back of hummingbirds
summer departs --
I touch bottom

rain--
crippled
by thirsty winds

in and out
morning mists
- end of summer


***

dehors et dedans
les brumes matinales
- fin d'été

writing

when thirsty –

windmills turning

early commute
heat rises to meet the dawn

summer wind down
fewer blooms on the rose bush
aster opening

a mild scrape
on her knee didn't
worrywart her
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..circa Sept. 8/10; Copyright 2010 Spiros Zafiris
..channeled; spirit Ram
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warm weekend
enjoying summer's last hurrah
with popsicles

summer--no summer,
the more distant grocery
troubles my tootsies
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..circa Spt.7/10; Copyright 2010 Spiros Zafiris
..channeled; spirit Ram; reaching into
the poet's mind
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autumnal breeze -
leaves
turning

freeway drizzle
he helps his only daughter
move out

The Herons's Nest
Vol. XII, No. 3, September 2010

labor day weekend
the smell of weed from
the party next door

spun sugar
all over the sky
Saturday market

heavily pregnant
she bends to the baby ducks
mesmerised

at the place
where sun rises
crescent moon


***

à l'endroit
où le soleil se lève
un croissant de lune

lightning
spider cracks
in her sky

susurrus

A raven's wingbeats 
 throb across the morning sky 
 the rest is silence

last weekend of summer-
enjoying the garden before
it goes to sleep

fourth watch
watering the garden
under the moon

last night's rain
in next-door's birdbath
sparrows

Kisses

salient uppercuts,
thanks to the wind, leaves bestow
and call kisses
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..circa September 2, 2010
..Copyright 2010 Spiros Zafiris
..channeled; spirit Ram
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bomb-ravaged field
sixty-five years later
a monument to peace
becoming another
stop for tourists

Notes From the Gean
Vol. 2, Issue 2, September 2010

sweltering afternoon
walking slowly to the car

in the back garden
a fox dismembers a bird
red apples fall