Monday, April 02, 2018

NaPaWriMo: Poems 3, 4, & 5 Moons, Autism, and Night Lectures


So, I wrote the first just after midnight looking at the bright moon outside my window and trying to capture it. The second is my annual “Ode to Autism” as it is National Autism Awareness Day. Every day here we are so aware…And the third poem is about our wonderful boy!



Moonstruck
Bright as day at night
You float above on black velvet
Where curtains open and close
Like a madcap comedy
That zings from scene to scene
Until the theater goes dark
One huge puzzle piece cloud
Is put in place and snap!
The picture not revealed
But gone
No stars because the puffy
Parachutes fill the night
Like an army attacking
In silent formation
They snuff out enemy light
Rays of silver seep out of the corners
Breaking up the cracked picture
And the army is blown by a blast
Of pure white light that
Illuminates all things on the ground
In the air and all around
To make plain
The plan of night
The outline of what is there
And can’t be seen at night
It is clear as dawn
As a perfect circle
Magnifies by moonlight
The misty droplets of luminesce
Lingering lazily in the lamplight

In the Heart of the Matter
What it is and isn’t
What it tis and tisn’t
It rules with those that love rules
And some lurch and drool
Some it causes greatness
Some delay or lateness
They all develop
They are enveloped
By a thing called autism
Some hate it
Others claim it
The syndrome
Seems to roam
And call home
To so many
Therapy costs
A pretty penny
All bought
To help plenty
To support this thing, autism
It is separate or whole
People take polls
To determine
If it is vermin
Food allergies
Where is it from this autism?
It shapes
It scrapes
It makes
It molds
It surprises
It rises
It is inside
It can hide
It is a part
Each one has a heart
That is where we start
To understand autism

Little Professor Lectures the Night
Your voice is just audible behind that door
As you speak with peaks rising and falling
You seem to be stalling
But I know you are soothing
Smoothing the way
For night’s delay
To come and put you down
As you go under the current
Of your own flowing speech
That rolls over and around you
Surrounding you in a blanket
Soft, warm, and worn
A groove that you scratch
Deeper into the surface
Till you bleed the facts out
Into your dreams
To keep you company
And dawn awakens
Your brain drained
To be filled to overflowing
During the daylight
Where you gather, grind
Filling your mind
With many a tiny detail
That computes, commutes
You to another place, time, space
Till you sink into your bed
Resting that busy head
Through a lecture of words, words, words,
Take flight like birds
To nest no more

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