Gypsy Shadows On A Wayward Sky

By Christie Moses

Gypsy Shadows On A Wayward Sky By Christie Moses

This is a poetry eBook with 79 poems about my journey through pain, my past and discovery. Life is a sometimes solemn affair and it is truly a labyrinth of wonder and agony. Inside these words is a place I went when I needed respite and relief from the shadows that at times would find me. I hope it touches at least one heart and moves at least one soul.

In poetry, if part of your soul doesn’t stain the page, crumble it up and throw it away.... C.Moses

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christie Moses
• Release date: Sep 10, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463735527

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Gypsy Shadows On A Wayward Sky

By Christie Moses

Copyright by Christie Moses 2010

Published by ePrinted Books

Smashwords Edition

Book Cover designed by

Kris-T Lee Photography

No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including recording, photocopying, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the publisher.

This book is a work of fiction and non-fiction.

This is a book about my journey through pain, my past and discovery. Life is a sometimes solemn affair and it is truly a labyrinth of wonder and agony. Inside these words is a place I went when I needed respite and relief from the shadows that at times would find me. I hope it touches at least one heart and moves at least one soul.

In poetry, if part of your soul doesn’t stain the page, crumble it up and throw it away…. C.Moses

Gypsy Shadows On A Wayward Sky

By Christie Moses

Dedicated to:

My wonderful husband Jeremy and my beautiful daughter Brianna

Without them I am nothing….

Any grammar errors or lack of alphabetizing is on purpose. It is a style of poetry.

Table of contents

Section One

The snow through your eyes

Six strings along the Cumberland

The song of desert sand and cadavers

The raw sting of a drifters blink

For any woman who has ever felt (or been) broken

On the outside looking in

Like roping a whisper

The jeweled kiss of clarity

The madness of loving great walls of something

From the closet of broken dolls

Section Two

The blooming ripens Haiku/Senryu sequence

Learning to sway

The auburn hours of fall(ing)

Siren song of a beach dreamer and sea

Journey to the dirge of strings

The weight of stones

The folly of unrest and fall dreams

Where the wild heart flows

Blowing kisses to a goodbye wind

Wistful rambles in cinnamon rain

Section Three

Tuolumne on my mind

Pear blossom and tears

Quiet exile

Days drip like sweat on lips

The education of rustic delirium

Cardboard windows and attic cuffs

Sepal serenade

Noose of the lone wolf

Brooding lyrics at eventide

The salt of a gypsy eye

Section Four

The eclipse of lashes

Goûtez mes lèvres comme vin cherry

The odyssey of a vagrant and the sun

Farewell to fragments beneath my skin

Prism dawns through diamond birth

Ghosts with stark eyes

Shrouded scrolls of a cardinal

Broken: record on repeat

In retrospect: the squander

Scent of torso and song of bees

Section Five

Mood rings and rusty creeks

Gossamer and webs

Cold solstice in May

Nostalgia stains blue as Sierra

Cygnus atratus and earth symphonies

Cinders: ash and blue (birds)

The nucleus of exodus

Binary anthem sings one

It’s all in your perspective

Baptism sky: Renewal Sea

Section Six

the stain of plum and femurs

on the blade of keening (note to mirrors)

Into soft spaces stumbles my heart

Streets of rain

Unchained on tangerine dusk

Pilgrimage: tale of the lost familiar

Calligraphy of tulip blooms and sea

It has a name: Lethal

Three thousand miles you’ve come

The greatest gift

Section Seven

Vagary: hypnotic

Of brine and mirrors

A winter wander

Desperado of the desert night

In the burning gills of wind and sky

Spiral ripples of a dreamers confusion

Down the larynx of briny deep

Suspended: The mark of you

Choreography of just one

Embrace the dusk in powerful wings

Section Eight

Fabrication fragments: the collapse

Sentinel of the muted

Eternity broods you like repeat wings

Pointless prose

Obscurity in the twilight hours

Ephemeral: the ingenuous drifting

Melody of a sky cruise

The crux of a dream is its reality

Darkling beautiful

In the breath of children

Severed