The grey winter
Tightens its unseen grip
Silently
Wordlessly
Enveloping all around
Until such a time
As the emergence of the sun
Would go unrecognized
Category: Short Poems
2/1/2023 – Fate
In turgid waters does the ship
Of my life make its way
E’er does the brine wash o’er and tip
My hull, to my dismay
No solid ground avails me
Nor wind blow straight and true
Instead it’s my ship sails me
No matter what I do
1/31/2023 – a haiku
Some days I can rest
Others my mind is weary
Yet can only whirl
1/30/2023 – lightyears
Bring that brightest starlight
That it might light the way
Toward a better future
That when the stars at last can see us
They are pleased
1/28/2023
When will the hoary shackles of
Life’s winter crack and fall?
When will I at last rise above
The muck that grounds us all?
When might the shadows of my thought
Recede as stars at dawn?
So that I’ll be that man I ought
To be, not one more pawn?
1/24/2023 – none else in the world
I have but one desire
Alas that it is not mine to keep
For I make not the winds
Nor the streams
That will carry you
I make not the destinies
That the Fates
Have written for us
Yet still I shall hold to you
For there is none else in the world
For me
1/23/2023 – a haiku
As winter drones on
The seeds fidget in the dirt
Anxious to break free
1/21/2023 – you, the sea
So little else amid this world
Could give such peace to me
As I in your arms still and curled
I, stone; and you, the sea
1/19/2023 – that wise man
Like a great standing stone
Is the wise man
Is the great man
Within me
Like the timbers
Of a ship’s hull
He braves seas
He braves storms
Yet so like the wind
Is that wise man
Is that great man
Within me
Who is ever-present
Yet ungraspable
One moment there
Then gone
1/18/2023 – the plunging cold
I walk upon a dark and frozen lake
Beneath a sky bereft of stars and moon
And wondering if each next step I take
Will bring the plunging cold more near, more soon
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