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Tag: Free Verse

2/17/2023 – come a day

On February 17, 2023February 13, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

There will come a day
When we will hear all the grasses sing
And see all the paints upon a bright world

There will come a day
When we will feel the stories underfoot
And know by name the voices on the wind

And when that day comes
I will hold you
And you me
And we will walk as stars across the sky

2/10/2023 – dawn

On February 10, 2023February 2, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

Dawn breaks
And the birds awaken
And the boughs creak
‘Neath the wind

2/7/2023 – a wiser thing

On February 7, 2023February 2, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

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

2/2/2023 – grey upon grey

On February 2, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

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

1/30/2023 – lightyears

On January 30, 2023January 27, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short Poems1 Comment

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

1/27/2023 – for what do I fret

On January 27, 2023January 27, 2023 By adamcallahan117In UncategorizedLeave a comment

For what do I fret
When such riches lay at my feet?
The warmth of a fire,
The smells of a hot meal,
The noises of the beasts
And the words of a lover?

For what do I fret
When all I need, I have?

1/24/2023 – none else in the world

On January 24, 2023January 19, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

I have but one desire
Alas that it is not mine to keep

For I make not the winds
Nor the streams
That will carry you

I make not the destinies
That the Fates
Have written for us

Yet still I shall hold to you
For there is none else in the world
For me

1/19/2023 – that wise man

On January 19, 2023January 19, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

Like a great standing stone
Is the wise man
Is the great man
Within me

Like the timbers
Of a ship’s hull
He braves seas
He braves storms

Yet so like the wind
Is that wise man
Is that great man
Within me

Who is ever-present
Yet ungraspable
One moment there
Then gone

1/16/2023 – not gently

On January 16, 2023January 11, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

Rise not gently
At the dawn

1/14/2023 – speak/wisdom

On January 14, 2023January 11, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

To look is not to see
To hear is not to listen
To sense is not to know
Nor is to speak, to speak wisdom

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