Phantom Fires
Phantom fires raging from the skyscape beast
from nocturnal battles out of the mystic east
casting images against the clouds of black
beautiful yellows shimering through the crack
casting shadows against the morning skies
painting pictures where the nighhawk flies
spiraling up to the firmament in graceful lines
easy drifting and scribing in poetic rhymes
in words melted down to sit on the clouds
in a space far from the deafening crowds
in the stillness of the lonely dawn of light
where clouds can be heard in their silent flight
o beautiful wars of the sun and earth
pictured against the clouds since birth
yellows and pinks and blacks and orange
all colors in order and visually arranged
o beautiful skies since the birth of time
and the fires of the sun in its skyward climb
