For when I lose my way and tire
Of this world’s cruel designs
I lay my head upon your lap
And so at last can rest for just a while
Category: Free Verse
8/12/2022
Laid to rest
By the apple tree
Where you ran and played
Now you lie
And make the flowers grow
8/10/2022 – the muck that clings
I wish to dream of simpler things
Than what I see awake
To leave behind the muck that clings
And my solace does take
8/9/2022 – to drink the sun
With a heavy heart
And eyelids like stones
And a head
Leaning for want of a bed
Of moss
I lay down upon
The forest floor
And stretch out my limbs
Till they penetrate the earth
And drink its bounty
And after a long while
That heaviness
Is lifted
And my spirit rises
To drink the sun
8/6/2022 – pull me back onto the tracks
Within the soft scent of your hair
And the warmth of your skin
Within your voice upon the air
And your wisdom within
I find a kind of solace, which
The world so often lacks
A peace to pull me from the ditch
And back onto the tracks
8/5/2022 – I thought of you
I found a daisy
Along the path
And in pondering it
Thought of you
8/3/2022 – in the quieter moments
It is in the quieter moments
That my mind
Is loudest
8/2/2022 – this world of steel
I’ve often sung of far-off lands
And times long lost to myth
Of cities now beneath the sands
And men buried therewith
So often that I’m sometimes lost
Within this world of steel
Longing for rough stone unembossed
Hidden ‘neath earthly seal
7/30/2022 – I wait for the rain
I wait for the rain
Standing on the dry grasses
Breathing the arid breeze
And though I will hide from it
And though its gloom weighs upon me
I wait for the rain
7/28/2022 – meetings
My wife is in meetings all day
From the moment the sun says g’day
I’d like to say “Hey! Let’s go walk, this is cray!”
But my wife is in meetings all day
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