Each day a new tale
Each night new, exciting dreams
Stories: wondrous things
Each day a new tale
Each night new, exciting dreams
Stories: wondrous things
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.
The days keep changing
Long, short, hot, cold, sunny, not
Yet the flowers grow
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
When does a sunrise
Cease and become the morning?
Do we really know?
A day spent with you
Whether out or on the couch
Is a day well-spent
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.