Here I lay my head
Holding you tight against me
At last I can rest
7/6/2022
I wandered out amid the mists
And dreary village lights
And there lost sight of twinkling lamps
That lit my prior nights
7/5/2022 – so often hidden here
Aloft go my dreams
Into skies of countless stars
Where heroes walk
And poets write
And explorers seek the horizon
There I find that purpose
So often hidden here
7/4/2022 – a haiku
Let us stand as one
And set the hatred aside
At least for today
7/2/2022 – secrets no one else has heard
The sun sets
And I do not retire
Lying instead
Beneath the starlight
Wondering what tales the unnamed stars tell
Pining for their songs
Their histories
The untold moments of the lives of bodies unseen
And as I wonder
A star twinkles
Whispering
Of secrets
No one else has heard
7/1/2022 – a haiku
The season is bright
And the green never far off
If you look below
Sonnet 16 – the halfway point
At this, the halfway point, solid I stand
Having traversed the rapids and the cliffs
And all the brambled cov’ring of the land
The wetted dirt and blinding snowy drifts
My thoughts turn to the journey yet to come
The veiléd mountain hulking over me
The second half of what will be the sum
Of one year’s efforts faced not fearlessly
Yet as the shadows cloud my troubled mind
And unmet trials start to overwhelm
The morning sun ascends with summer’s wind
And I once more stand strong there at the helm
For having come so far to this I know
There is no distance that I cannot go
6/29/2022 – I wish for slowness
I wish for slowness
For the flitting bolts
That are my thoughts
To ease
To follow winding lanes
To break at the switchbacks
Along the path
Up this mountain
6/28/2022 – a haiku
Let me lie beneath
A wind-dancing canopy
And breathe for a while
6/27/2022 – listen like the leaves
The birds chirp and chitter
As the sun peeks out
And the wind blows brisk and wild
Bringing word of change to come
And the leaves and petals
Listen
As do I
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