Standoff

[Johntee]

An angel treading asphodel,

Head to head and head to tail

Reflections in a mirror maze

In midday sun action stalls

Around

...

[Johntee]

The blown and dried I envisaged as a flower of night. I've added punctuation to seperate and concertina'd "dew filled eye" to "dewed eye"...

[Johntee]

Come sun, shine on,

Give me excess of it

So night's companion,

Festered gloom, be

Forgot and

Blown,

...

[Johntee]

Devotional,

Ridgeline rooks

Greet the day.
By morning light

Of scumbled sky,

Marian blue cuts

...

[Johntee]

And when
The rushing wind is Stilled
The stars spring out to fill the void
But foremost, Artemis gives chase
Her hounds, a fleeting

...

[Johntee]

From dog-bark to bird song

They have it wrong.

The song they sing
Is a song of Spring.
A survival song.

It sings

...

[Johntee]

Dreaming under

Breathless sky, I am

Pressed to a groaning

Earth, first cousin of my

Return from restless wand

...

[Johntee]

A jewel, a
Gem, a tear
Stained pearl
Once again
You draw
The moon
Within reach
Of your pen.

[Johntee]

A jewel!

Once

Again

You find

A way to
Reset the moon,

Wrapping the lunar

...

[Johntee]

The Roman God of doors and doorways was Janus, the patron God of the turn of the year, depicted in profile having two faces looking left and right and...

[Johntee]

From a European view, none of the above should meet exception... Except you have the whole world at your door.

[Johntee]

I have the pessimism of age so perhaps I regard progress as a point of view.

[Johntee]

Hold the World upon the cusp.
Too late it rolls over into timeless

Past, forgetting what has gone.
Tomorrow may be worse
Yet

...

[Johntee]

A Christian view of Christmas Excised of profit's vice
Less getting, more
Giving. The seer
Will pay the price...

[Johntee]

Overseer

He has seen it all before
The two-faced god of doors
Seen it come and in a war
Stained year grow torn
And

...