“Jupiter’s Song,” “Sometimes God Speaks to Me,” and “Pachydermia” by Emily Vieweg

Jupiter’s Song

Dear Ones,

I have become what I wished.
I have become the rain
the ocean the sky and
the wind.

I brush past your cheek
and muss your hair
just after you have fixed it.

I am the hurricane
flooding environments with
knowledge and equipment
central to all-knowing.

I am the rain.
I made it.

Cry for the pain, but please,
not for the loss, for I have become
one with The Creator and
we argue over the
smallest ordeals.

Be at peace, friends,
for you will see me –

in every raindrop
and every mid-winter snowflake

my blizzard will coat your heart
in love and life and remember,
compacted snow
brings shelter
and warmth.

I am the rain.
I made it.

So smile as you remember my spirit,
my soul is resting in unity
with nature.

I made it.

Do not follow me, dear ones –
You have more to do there.
I can handle this end of things.

Oh, guess what?

Children love to splash in my puddles
and jump into my snowbanks
and surf on my waves where they
smile and rejoice because

I am the rain.
I made it.

I am surrounded by the wind
and the sky and nature’s secrets
I wish I could share

Feel the breeze,
taste the air,

I am with you.

I am the rain.

Sometimes God Speaks to Me

Not Joan of Arc,
but the flames.

 
Pachydermia

I wonder if elephants really have
an amazing memory, or if their
matriarch has just been doing the job
for so long, she knows exactly where
the necessities are hiding.

Graceful giants roam the deserts
and jungles,
majesties of their beings –

we should pay more attention to
these professors of life
following an established path
left by ancestresses

still, among us are rogues
who dare to follow Frost instead,
because sometimes the only reason a path
was less traveled
is because no one
dared to peek.

Emily Vieweg is a poet originally from St. Louis, Missouri. Her debut full length poetry collection “but the flames” is available through Finishing Line Press. Emily’s work has been published in Soundings Review, Art Young’s Good Morning, Proximity Magazine, Indolent Books “What Rough Beast,” and more. She lives in Fargo, North Dakota where she is a mother of two, pet parent, and university program assistant.