If the ground beneath us
Spoke
What would it say?
11/3/2021
What truths does the earth hold?
What bounties of tales and epics
What scars from battles long forgotten
What heartbreak, what joy?
11/2/2021 – a haiku
The wind’s roar deadens
While animals hide away
And the sky darkens
11/1/2021
In dreams there is a peaceful world
A quiet world
Where the heart slows
Where my mind lives free
Of the shadows that crowd my eyes
When they are open
10/30/2021
There’s quiet in the waiting for
A long-expected thing
Anticipation, almost more
Than that which is nearing
And in that quiet, energy
That drives the heart to pound
Excitement for what may yet be
What lies there to be found
10/29/2021 – a haiku
Waves break on the beach
Reshaping the shifting sands
The change small, unseen
10/28/2021
Don’t fret, my love, o’er passings things
That float off with the breeze
Nor listen to the voice that sings
Of joys that it will seize
Upon my heart lay now your ear
And hear the rhythm strong
Its life is yours, and what you hear
Is love’s unending song
10/27/2021
Such little ink-wrought wonders on a page
That spring to life in sunset colors bright
And characters from some forgotten age
Bring dance and music to a quiet night
10/26/2021 – a haiku
Your lips against mine
My breathing feels fuller now
My heartbeat quickens
10/25/2021
The cool air crystallizes
All around
And words grow still
Their rhythm
Arrested
But with them
The heat
Subsides
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