The wind howls
And in the roar
Words
Spring forth
Category: Free Verse
2/3/2022
The wintry blanket covers all the ground
With softest, purest flakes of fallen snow
That dampens all so there is not a sound
Naught but the fiery brightness of sun’s glow
2/2/2022
Rise with the sun
And sleep not
Until you have danced among the stars
2/1/2022
I walked in winter’s cold
And looked up to the sky
And in the bitter chill
A voice was rising high:
“Cease, mortal, in your steps
And turn ye from the cold
Go warm yourself beside
The fire with those you love!”
And such was how my wife called me inside
1/29/2022
Have I not walked
Trodden upon the unbroken ground
For such distances
As to seem
Endless?
Have I not heard
The sounds of every end of the earth
Such symphonies
As to seem
Boundless?
Would that I had not felt
The gnawing pain of a thousand lifetimes
Such agony
As to seem
Enough for one man
But perhaps
None can be
Without the others
1/27/2022
With ev’ry passing year
We find more hairs of grey
And shorter grows each day
Or so I often hear
But oft comes wisdom, too
If we can seek it out
And learn to turn about
From that which is untrue
1/26/2022
What brightness shines in me
Is matched in the shadowed depths
For one cannot be
Without the other
1/24/2022
What force upon this misbegotten ground–
Chock full of metals foreign to its soil–
Could bring it from a haunted burial ground
Back to its verdant days, with naught but toil?
1/22/2022
I can hear a distant melody
Whispering on the wind
From lands far past the horizon
Telling stories of places
And peoples
And wonders
I have not yet known
1/20/2022 – leap
I have but to breathe and plant my feet
To sense the steady earth beneath my toes
Look up toward the sky which I will meet
Reach for it with my hands and eyes and nose
And leap
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