In dappled sunlight, list’ning to the breeze
I sit in wonder at the vibrant life
The chitt’ring birds and tall, triumphant trees
That make a tiny speck of human strife
Tag: iambic pentameter
5/23/2023 – break the wheel
Above the crashing human sounds
Beyond the grey of block and steel
A different, brighter truth abounds
There where we go if we can break the wheel
5/19/2023 – with naught unwritten
In fits and starts of wisdom oft
The pen on paper finds its way
Till when you lift the pen aloft
With naught unwritten that you wished to say
4/11/2023 – plastic keyboards
Would that I might toil ‘neath the sun
From dawn till dinner time
I never felt I was the one
To find in plastic keyboards some new rhyme
4/8/2023 – so high
I once oft wished for faster things
To walk upon the sky
I wish now for life without strings
My heart lifts that I do not reach so high
4/7/2023 – look within
If oft I seek to shape another’s heart
How can I look within to alter mine?
3/21/2023 – did ever I decide
Did ever I decide upon this path?
Not just this step, but all the ones before?
Did ever I put down in ink the way
I walked and turned to come to here and now?
1/18/2023 – the plunging cold
I walk upon a dark and frozen lake
Beneath a sky bereft of stars and moon
And wondering if each next step I take
Will bring the plunging cold more near, more soon
1/13/2023 – their imaginings
A child looks out upon the world and sees
A land of promise, colors bright and true
I wish to look, through their eyes, at this freeze
And their imaginings I’ll take on too
1/10/2023 – that shadowed cloud
A stormcloud wandered into my blue sky
With falling rain and thunder booming loud
Instead of hiding, there I hoped to fly
To learn what lay within that shadowed cloud
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