In darkness do I ever find
The brightest shards of stars
Tag: iambic heptameter
3/13/2023 – not yet spring
The high boughs creak beneath the snow
As wind chimes in the twigs
Once more the northern reaches blow
And freeze the early sprigs
3/10/2023 – the way you showed (ode to a dog)
In five short years so much you’ve taught
Of how creatures can love
What I can be and how I ought
To, fearless, leap above
The stinging nettles of the earth
Though many they may be
I can but run with boundless mirth
The way you showed to me
3/6/2023 – hide within
Let’s sink beneath the azure waves
And by the turtles swim
There where a quiet music plays
That I might hide within
3/2/2023 – they all lay bare
I have but one heart for to give
One soul to join a pair
One body that by yours can live
For you they all lay bare
2/27/2023 – not undone
It was amidst the broken snow
Beneath the new spring sun
As brown and green began to grow
And melt began to run
There did I find the seed we’d sown
So careful in the soil
Gone bright and lively, not undone
By winter’s frozen toil
2/23/2023 – between the leaves and moss
A shadowed path, soft green with moss
Lies there before my feet
Red trees and yellow their leaves toss
And life and death there meet
To walk upon it is to know
The truth the sages say:
‘Twixt light and shadow you must go
To throw your cares away
2/20/2023 – with great surrender
Though I have often fallen from
The mores that I pursue
I still seek high, and often some
Great truth comes into view
It is with great surrender that
This wisdom I receive
And oft I must remember that
‘Twill e’er be a reprieve
2/15/2023 – storied sights
With sudden fire my heart alights
And fills with ancient song
To hold so close to storied sights
It runs and leaps along
2/11/2023 – turning inward
When shadowed musings enter me
Unbid, with ill intent
I pause and wonder what they see
In me that can be bent
And to those parts I turn my gaze
And build upon their bricks
So that the sickly shadow-rays
Can never fit betwixt
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