There is much yet to do
Ah, but the trees!
Category: Free Verse
5/7/2021 – an open heart
Give not your words
But your ears
Give not your body
But an open heart
The lily, continued
When summer winds blow hot and dry,
What does the lily feel?
When autumn leaves come from the sky,
Do they make for its meal?
And when the snow again does fall,
Does the lily despair?
Or does it know, despite it all
Next spring ’twill ‘gain be fair?
The lily
Whatever does the lily say
When frozen ‘neath the snow?
What does it feel when bright of day
Coaxes it from below?
Whatever can it think of when
Its leaves begin to spread?
And when its petals open, then
What thinks it of its bed?
5/3/2021 – how strange
“What ho!” quoth the wind
As it swirled to and fro
And spun all about
Bringing fresh and foreign air
How strange, I thought.
4/30/2021 – meaning
Meaning is often sought in things outside
Looked for
Pined after
Wanted beyond wanting
Could it not be
Created?
4/29/2021 – inside
What truths does the sky whisper
As I hide behind my walls?
4/28/2021 – lived
Often do I dream
Of distant places
Never seen
Often do I dream
Of other voices
Never heard
Often do I dream
Of other lives
Lived
The four winds
Not idly doth the east wind blow
So cool and whistling clear
Nor do in vain the rains follow
Patt’ring for all to hear
Not quiet is the western wind
When it winds to and fro
It twists and eddies as if twinned
With crooked creeks below
Not bashful is the wind from north
Its biting, frigid breath
With fervor does it sally forth
Along with wintry death
The south wind is, ‘mong them, a boon
That carries warm and welcome air
That sighs on us like to the moon
So free, so kind, and best: so fair
Life unshackled
As the sun crosses the sky
And the blossoms wilt
And the seasons change
The universe exhorts:
Be unquiet
Unbound
Unfettered
Dance with Fate
She is your partner
Lift your feet from the ground
And demand
Life
Unshackled
