Sunlight most garish streams through naked trees
That twist and creak and sway in lightest breeze
Category: Free Verse
3/8/2024 – without light
Wandering across the yard
Under starless, moonless skies
I see what all appears to be
Without light:
Nothing
3/6/2024 – as if new
To wander is to open up the mind
To all around and see it as if new
3/5/2024 – a different world
In the shadows
Cast by the moon
The air smells clear
Like still water
Or a brisk wind
Though little is seen
Much is heard
As a different world
Dances
3/1/2024 – breathe
I long for simpler days when I could breathe
2/28/2024 – returns
The azure sky returns from there
Behind the thickest clouds
2/27/2024 – withhold
My heart’s flames die in the embers
Of all I once dreamed of
Awaiting the bellows
That I withhold
2/24/2024 – as it knows me
Give me a song
Built of all the creeping moss
And all the whispering winds
And all the broken branches
And every silent creature ‘neath the sea
That I might know the earth
Half so well
As it knows me
2/23/2024 – what did they sing of
I wonder often at the world
And all who walk upon its face
The oceans that have ever swirled
And people that have left their trace
What did they sing of that we’ll never know?
2/21/2024 – turn away
The wretched shadows lurking here
Will not find grace in me
For as they try to turn my ear
I simply turn away
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