MiPo Magazine RD McManes

Highway 75 Blue
by R.D. McManes

“The end of spring-
the poet is brooding
about editors”  
                  -Buson

It’s 9:30 PM, the moon shining thru the trees.
Pale ivory, midnight wrapped in blue and tie-dyed gold,
early summer memories 
are like plastic boxes full of winter clothes.
Earlier I watched an old Sophia Loren movie 
starring nothing but her bedroom eyes.
Lost in their depths, my longings become
more than I can realize.

The hours pass, melting into the night 
I edit another freshly rejected poem 
plucked from the growing discard pile. 
An old CCR tune “Suzy Q” plays in the void
with fading echoes of “I love you”. 
It hits me, There are no stairs to climb,
nothing leads to my “Stairway to Heaven”.

Author of six volumes of poetry, “Reflections in a Poets Mirror”, Love from a Poetic Point of View”, “Poetic Sighs”, “Don’t Read Me Like Some Poem”, “We Ain’t in Kansas No More” and “Pour Me Another Poem”. Mr. McManes has been published by Saucyvox, Literary Expresso, Prairie Poetry, Write On, Short Stuff, Writer’s Hood, HaikuSun, and Baroque Review. He has also been a featured poet at Haikuhut.com . Mr. McManes is a member of the Kansas Author’s Club and his author website is www.macpoetry.com.