I have but one desire
One bright, commanding need
One wish that would fulfill my ev’ry dream
It burns hot as a fire
It plants in me a seed
I wish to know what wish that wish might be
Category: Free Verse
7/1/2023 – halfway
Halfway is troubling
Halfway is challenging
Halfway is where my failures go to wait
Halfway is mocking
Halfway is scolding
Halfway is when the urgency sets in
Halfway is one point
Halfway is one stop
Halfway is just a place upon a line
Halfway is quiet
Halfway is nothing
Halfway is just halfway, just halfway
6/30/2023 – elder
A dam is but a trifling thing
Against the power of the earth
A highway but a dust footprint
Upon the world’s immensity
A building, imitation of
The age-old stone beneath your feet
A nation little more than thought
When earth is elder e’en than we
6/28/2023 – summer
The wind is still, the air heavy
The grasses tall and dry
The sounds around a crazed bevy
Of songs all lifting high
6/27/2023 – so bright
So bright the sun in desert lands
Where heat and light are death
So bright the sun upon the sea
Where broken clouds are life
6/24/2023 – man eats
Man eats the fruit
That he might grow hale
Man eats the prey
That he might grow strong
Man eats the land
That he might grow rich
Man eats the enemy
That he might grow mighty
Man eats the sea
That he might grow vast
Man eats the world
That he might grow godlike
Man eats
Man eats
Man eats
Till nothing remains
6/22/2023 – solitude
Unbidden feelings often come
In times of quiet solitude
6/21/2023 – hold
I would hold to you
Through the darkest night
Through the hardest storm
Through the coldest winter
For I would need you, too
6/19/2023 – owed
Let no man nor woman nor child
Be ever made to act as if
Their lives are owed to any but themselves
6/17/2023 – wondering
I wonder after those I know no more
And whether they are wond’ring after me
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