When shadows come and dance upon
The plain and quiet walls
I ‘magine myself away, gone
Till I don’t hear their calls
When shadows come and dance upon
The plain and quiet walls
I ‘magine myself away, gone
Till I don’t hear their calls
What quiet wonder do I feel
When tales and fantasies abound
Deep in my mind’s corners, they heal
The darknesses that I have found
And when I stop to think
Of greater things
Portents
Of import
Then do I wonder at the world
Yes, I know it’s not the 5th. I once again missed a poem, which means I owe you two.
So oft the world bears down upon
A tired, anxious mind;
And though we try to soldier on,
Our fates are intertwined
With all the world purports to be,
And all its stops and turns;
In life we are not from it free
Nor immune to its burns;
And so with anxious mind and heart
We listen to the peace –
What peace we can but find – and start
To force the pain to cease;
And from the wind and trees and skies,
A fresh breath at last comes;
And spirits can finally rise
From earth’s painful doldrums.
Why, then, do I dream?
The earth is bountiful
The universe, generous
Love surrounds me
My beating heart
Why, then, do I dream?
Not idly does the sun
Rise o’er the horizon line
Each day it brings
Is a gift
A boundless ocean, wild and wide
Where I go dancing with the tide
Its tallest waves I will bestride
Upon Earth’s free and endless side
So often my thoughts turn
Spin
Run
When I would have them be still
By firelight did I see your eyes
The first they locked on mine
And burrowed beneath my disguise
With clarity divine
You saw beneath the hardened shell
I’d built upon my skin
And saw into the untapped well
Of spirit trapped within
And patiently you chipped away
At walls both thick and thin
‘Til flooding in came light of day
O’er my heart’s raucous din
So since we locked eyes in the red
And flick’ring light of dying fire
E’er have I owed, my belovéd,
To you my love and my desire.
Why does the sun shimmer and wink
When passing ‘neath th’horizon line?
Why must it tease in orange and pink
As red pours ‘cross the skies like wine?