Silent Moonlight
Love lost
in silent moonlight
tortures heart
with rising sun.
Silence snores.
Sunlight scatters
shadows in
spotty rain.
- Dated 1970
Michael Lee Johnson lives in Chicago, IL after spending 10 years in Edmonton, Alberta Canada during the Viet Nam era. He is a freelance writer and poet. He is heavy influenced by Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Irving Layton, and Leonard Cohen. His recent book, The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom (2007) is available on iUniverse and Amazon.com.