Shadows follow me
Even past crooked corners
Ever just behind
Category: Short Poems
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
2/6/2023 – a haiku
Let’s hang some branches
And dance beneath the starlight
Like dawn will ne’er come
2/4/2023 – let it go
Why must my tired heart suffer so
For what it can’t control?
2/3/2023 – a haiku
Let us start a fire
And burn away winter’s chill
Burn till spring arrives
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
1/31/2023 – a haiku
Some days I can rest
Others my mind is weary
Yet can only whirl
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
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