Let our day be joyful
And as we take our flight
Into the bright horizon
Together let us breathe
Category: Free Verse
2/11/2023 – turning inward
When shadowed musings enter me
Unbid, with ill intent
I pause and wonder what they see
In me that can be bent
And to those parts I turn my gaze
And build upon their bricks
So that the sickly shadow-rays
Can never fit betwixt
2/10/2023 – dawn
Dawn breaks
And the birds awaken
And the boughs creak
‘Neath the wind
2/8/2023 – guiding light
The horse hooves beating trouble me
As they come down the lane
Of mental pathways I can’t see
Amidst the foggy plain
I wonder what those drums portend
And when they’ll reach my sight
If they foretell my story’s end
Or tell of guiding light
2/7/2023 – a wiser thing
As the last frost melts
I will harvest what grew
From the seeds
Deep in my soul
Embraced in the cold
Guided through the storms
And if the stars will it
Emerge unbitten by that frost
A wiser thing
Than I was before
2/4/2023 – let it go
Why must my tired heart suffer so
For what it can’t control?
2/2/2023 – grey upon grey
The grey winter
Tightens its unseen grip
Silently
Wordlessly
Enveloping all around
Until such a time
As the emergence of the sun
Would go unrecognized
2/1/2023 – Fate
In turgid waters does the ship
Of my life make its way
E’er does the brine wash o’er and tip
My hull, to my dismay
No solid ground avails me
Nor wind blow straight and true
Instead it’s my ship sails me
No matter what I do
1/30/2023 – lightyears
Bring that brightest starlight
That it might light the way
Toward a better future
That when the stars at last can see us
They are pleased
1/28/2023
When will the hoary shackles of
Life’s winter crack and fall?
When will I at last rise above
The muck that grounds us all?
When might the shadows of my thought
Recede as stars at dawn?
So that I’ll be that man I ought
To be, not one more pawn?
A Poem A Day 