Hurrah for northern winds and for the quieting, white snow
That there upon each branch and leaf makes all an artful show
Tag: iambic heptameter
1/13/2024 – what I want to hear
Have ever I seen, there upon the bright horizon line
More than what I expected, more than my desiréd sign?
1/6/2024 – wishing
To wish upon a distant star
Is wishing back in time
12/27/2023 – what’s near
As if in peaceful slumber do I sit and listen well
To all the sounds about me that I often fail to hear
The music of the forest and the somber notes that knell
When we turn our ears to all but what’s near
12/26/2023 – weight
Speak not to me of riches or
The weight of ordered life
11/24/2023 – douse
I lie amidst the cooling trees
And ‘neath their naked boughs
That I might feel their earthly ease
My fiery spirit douse
11/14/2023 – full and glad
I wish for little more than that
Your heart be full and glad
10/25/2023 – new song
I wander often from the ground
‘pon which I find my feet
And in the shifting winds I find
Some new and wondrous song
10/18/2023 – silent forest
When oft I walk beneath the boughs
Of those elder than I
I hope to hear the songs they sing
All while growing so high
10/13/2023 – faraway tongues
For me, I ask the wind to bring
Words from the farthest shore
The ones that clearly, brightly sing
Though I know not what for
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