“Ocean of Sky”

There are acres and liters of sky

Where time is a shoreline to light

By an ocean azure with cerulean tide

As angels finger paint their clouds white

For a beachfront firmament jeweled by dawn

Before the tide of dusk sanguines rust

Or cherub teardrops like rainfall in autumn

Until our heavens sugar earth with snowstorm

Whereupon pieces of eternity over your palms

Are not psammite ash but crystalline psalms

Sung from a windsong if silvered persimmons

To dress this coastal horizon alongside oblivion

Whose sun then cascaded by owl feathers

Apart their flurry of stone bridges forever

Even where infinity kisses its colorless summer

Do ancestral spirits ember into blossom corsair

Unfettered by time as a paradise bird

Did memories live on inside alive her

Cawing songs which do not need letters

So ageless in the way daydreams bellwether

How you wore your hair that autumn

Ahead copper grasslands embroidered by gilded leaves

Which dreamed out loud akin pearlescent amber

Through late-September haze of vestibular nimbus

Young again however one more time unending

The sunset’s gradient russet among pallid rosebushes

Still smells so vivid imbued with fall nectar

Looking at another as dewdrops shower meteor

The chalk of your fingers outlining whispers

Betwixt ivory and tinsel across alcoved pewter

Where this October morning overcast is concrete

As galena rain paints greensward to ether

Freer than the wind that chases horses

Lost amidst a garden of our youth

As if heaven and earth never existed

Just beneath an ocean of sky everlasting

© 2025, A. M. D’Angelo