Friday, December 26, 2025

Antoinette Vella Payne

The Moon Belongs to Everyone


Walk you the gentle way

The end must come

No matter what joy

or hardship is spent


Take your ride without guilt 

but with grace  

where each other is

winner


Look out at misty

shimmering lights

reflected in dark

dreaded pitch pines


Walk a labyrinth

where forest & bog merge

steam swirled into whispers caught

by the snow goose & mallard


Where we all hear the call

each a part of consciousness

each a part of the other

we leap into eternity




The Unattainable Index  


Ghosting myself, I slip silently away to peer into what’s unattainable. Tell myself, “Look out, once you close the door, what seemed real is gone. Reach instead for the pinnacle, the zenith, the world’s radio waves in light. Offer up beautiful calamity, echoes of grief, helium’s iridescence, moments evolved to eternity in place of yesterday or forever.”


A Accidentally alert

B Beauty beyond  

C Calamity prepared

D Distance up close

E Echoes silence 

F Fearless immobility 

G Grief hurried

H Helium rock 

I Iridescent night 

J Justice ends 

K Kingdom of all

L Light sombre

M Moments disconnected

N Neverland

O Ostrich ostensible 

P Pinnacle blunted

Q Query stated 

R Rich salt 

S Star launch

T Truth cushioned

U Ugly service

V Vitriol love

W Weary wonder 

X X-rayed brain fog

Y Yesterday resumed

Z Zenith ground zero




Soul Searching in a Country Song 


Blackbird flees to grey sky

Perch up high on pine tree branches

Look out on Page Street


Tiny humans like ants walking upright 

to her bird’s eye view 

City sounds carry up too


Horns, sirens, saws and the man

on the corner strumming & singing

loud & clear in public  



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