I have not seen more than a speck
Of all the wide world’s scenery
And so I long to go and trek
‘Cross all the land and every sea
Category: Short Poems
9/18/2023 – a haiku
I have not a thought
For mankind’s edifices:
All but grains of sand
9/16/2023 – every shore
Let all the music on the wind
Sing bright and loud to every shore
9/15/2023 – but a man
I swing and heft my worldly tools
That they might make of all around
A place more like what came before
When they were but a dream, I but a man
9/14/2023 – a haiku
Waves lap at the shore
Whispering of adventure
A wide world beyond
9/13/2023 – eternally
I watch and wait for anything to pass
Some moment that would make it clear to me:
This is the truth that I can trust to last
This is the path I’ll walk eternally
9/12/2023 – wolf’s heart
A wolf resides within my heart
E’er threatening to leap and bite
To fight and tear my world apart
If I were to give in one night
9/11/2023 – a haiku
Give me to the sea
That I might learn its secrets
And lie in wonder
9/9/2023 – star
A guiding light
Flickering far away
And just beyond reach
Ever and always in motion
Ever and always the same
Small and indistinguishable
Yet a gemstone all its own
A promise that tomorrow
It will remain there
Waiting to be seen
9/8/2023 – not to dwell
A fiery heat within my breast
Calls out to all the living earth
Cries not to dwell amongst the rest
But in a place of trees and birds and mirth
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