The shadows close around my mind
When I deafen myself
When I deprive my deeper soul
Of music’s gentle touch
Category: Short Poems
7/10/2023 – a haiku
Ride the tide with me
Let it take us where it will
Into the unknown
7/8/2023 – by their footprints
Silent shimmers
In the air
Unseeable
Unhearable
Untouchable
Yet they are there
Bending the universe
And we know them
By their footprints
7/7/2023 – a haiku
Sing me an old song
That recalls the dead to life
Long as music plays
7/6/2023 – undimmed
The summer sun upon the grass
Is bright and dances in the wind
With none of winter’s cold morass
Its joy still fresh, its truth undimmed
7/5/2023 – after the storm
The clouds burst
And the sun beckons
And the rain smells sweet in the air
7/4/2023 – a haiku
Do not point to sand
And imagine there a line
I do not see it
7/3/2023 – wish
I have but one desire
One bright, commanding need
One wish that would fulfill my ev’ry dream
It burns hot as a fire
It plants in me a seed
I wish to know what wish that wish might be
7/1/2023 – halfway
Halfway is troubling
Halfway is challenging
Halfway is where my failures go to wait
Halfway is mocking
Halfway is scolding
Halfway is when the urgency sets in
Halfway is one point
Halfway is one stop
Halfway is just a place upon a line
Halfway is quiet
Halfway is nothing
Halfway is just halfway, just halfway
6/30/2023 – elder
A dam is but a trifling thing
Against the power of the earth
A highway but a dust footprint
Upon the world’s immensity
A building, imitation of
The age-old stone beneath your feet
A nation little more than thought
When earth is elder e’en than we
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