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2/2/2023 – grey upon grey

On February 2, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

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

2/1/2023 – Fate

On February 1, 2023January 27, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

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

On January 31, 2023January 27, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Haikus, Short PoemsLeave a comment

Some days I can rest
Others my mind is weary
Yet can only whirl

1/30/2023 – lightyears

On January 30, 2023January 27, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short Poems1 Comment

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

On January 28, 2023January 27, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

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

On January 24, 2023January 19, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

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

On January 23, 2023January 19, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Haikus, Short Poems1 Comment

As winter drones on
The seeds fidget in the dirt
Anxious to break free

1/21/2023 – you, the sea

On January 21, 2023January 19, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short Poems1 Comment

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

On January 19, 2023January 19, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

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

On January 18, 2023January 11, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

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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