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
Tag: iambic meter
12/26/2023 – weight
Speak not to me of riches or
The weight of ordered life
12/22/2023 – songs in the quiet
I owe you two again!
Untrusting of the molded walls of man
I walk amidst the tall, unspeaking trees
And in the quiet find song louder than
All choirs and bells that ride upon the breeze
12/20/2023 – all achieved in light
Many of us living in the earth’s northern reaches struggle at this time of year, myself included. Here’s hoping you all are well. Remember: after tomorrow, the days will grow longer again.
I walk beneath the shadowed winter sky
In search of something lost, gone with the sun
Yet naught alive or vibrant meets my eye
And all achieved in light is now undone
12/16/2023 – and be
I long for little more than to lie down
Amidst the whistling grasses ‘neath the sun
Hidden from every ear and prying eye
Where I can watch and hear and smell and be
12/15/2023 – the busyness of business
The busyness of business wears on me
Its promises all fail to set me free
12/13/2023 – amidst the fallen snow
The winter chill arrests me so
I’m lost amidst the fallen snow
12/8/2023 – ashes
I looked within the shadowed realm
That hides inside my addled mind
And looked for who stood at the helm
But little more than ashes did I find
12/2/2023 – a promise of beyond
I yearn for things beyond my time and place
Where wonder marked the mind of every man
Where stars and oceans made the great unknown
Horizons each a promise of beyond
11/29/2023 – conceal
The dark’ning skies cruelly offend
When they from us the stars conceal
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