The winter chill arrests me so
I’m lost amidst the fallen snow
12/12/2023 – but not the world
Take my eyes, but not the sunset
Take my ears, but not the birds
Take my hands, but not the grasses
Take me all, but not the world
12/11/2023 – a haiku
I want to smell salt
Feel hot sand between my toes
And smile at the sun
12/9/2023 – earth’s very end
If I had but the lungs of a giant
I’d run like the wind till I dropped
O’er every horizon and summit
Toward earth’s very end
12/8/2023 – ashes
I looked within the shadowed realm
That hides inside my addled mind
And looked for who stood at the helm
But little more than ashes did I find
12/7/2023 – a haiku
I tire of the things
That I am told I should want
For they bring no joy
12/6/2023 – under the boundless heavens
I’ve lived a thousand lives
And still nothing
Under the boundless heavens
12/5/2023 – waiting
I find myself in fragments
An arm here, a mind there
An ear to the wind
A heart on the horizon
So that I am spread over all the earth
Waiting for I know not what
12/4/2023 – a haiku
Rain drops pattering
While the sun peeks through the trees
The air crisp and cool
12/2/2023 – a promise of beyond
I yearn for things beyond my time and place
Where wonder marked the mind of every man
Where stars and oceans made the great unknown
Horizons each a promise of beyond
A Poem A Day 