The summer wind blows cool and dry
Yet tales upon it chill the nerves
Of crashing waves from mountains high
And such great heat the air dances and curves
Category: Free Verse
7/19/2023 – once again
When I am in shadow
You are light
When I am in cold
You are warmth
When I am in the depths
You are the hand reaching
Pulling me to safety once again
7/18/2023 – still be true
You walked so light of foot along
The narrow way upon the wall
While whistling some forgotten song
That birds then answered with their call
And that was just one moment I
Fell deeper still for you
My spirits lifted up so high
I wondered if this all could still be true
7/15/2023 – sing you
I’ll sing
I’ll sing you
All your music
All your harmonies
All your discordant tones
All your heavenly melodies
All your deepest and most somber notes
That all might know the you I know
That all might hear of you
That all might see
The you
I see
7/14/2023 – rises
A quickly-falling rain
A whistling evening wind
And all earth’s music rises in the dark
7/12/2023 – whispering
Sands call me
From arid places
Where none walk
And all that lives
Lives in shadow
And all that lived
Lies in quiet
Beneath the hot sand
Whispering
7/11/2023 – music’s touch
The shadows close around my mind
When I deafen myself
When I deprive my deeper soul
Of music’s gentle touch
7/8/2023 – by their footprints
Silent shimmers
In the air
Unseeable
Unhearable
Untouchable
Yet they are there
Bending the universe
And we know them
By their footprints
7/6/2023 – undimmed
The summer sun upon the grass
Is bright and dances in the wind
With none of winter’s cold morass
Its joy still fresh, its truth undimmed
7/5/2023 – after the storm
The clouds burst
And the sun beckons
And the rain smells sweet in the air
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