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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

1/14/2023 – 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

1/11/2023 – only ever a part (the sea turtle)

On January 11, 2023December 30, 2022 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

With quiet grace
And thoughtful slowness
It rides currents
Seen without sight
As in its world
It exists with
Beside
Near
Over
Under
Never less or greater
Only ever a part

1/4/2023 – it is with joy

On January 4, 2023December 30, 2022 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

It is with joy
That I face that shadow
With joy
That I walk a darkened road
With joy
That I brave the cold of winter
With joy
That I confront the unknown

12/28/2022 – time remains

On December 28, 2022December 19, 2022 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

I am too little certain
For a man of principle
Too little learned
For a man of letters
Too little wise
For a man who listens
Too little
For many things

Still
Time remains

12/20/2022 – I with both

On December 20, 2022December 19, 2022 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

In the deepness
Of a moment
I find multitudes
Of stars:

Knowledge
Wonder
Fury
Calm
Wisdom
Innocence

Dullest grey and brilliant light
Pervade my senses
Each not without the other
And I with both

12/15/2022 – frozen dew

On December 15, 2022 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

Gleaming dewdrops
Frozen by December’s chill
Sparkling under the sunrise
In the briefest moment
Before they return
To the earth

12/12/2022 – we have not yet tread upon it

On December 12, 2022December 7, 2022 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short Poems1 Comment

Let us go
Into the forest
And look not at the trail
But follow the branches
And the leaves
And the speckled sunlight
That peeks through the canopy

Let us go
Out to sea
And look not to the shoreline
But follow the gulls
And the waves
And the sparkling stars
As they break the night’s veil

Let us go
Along a road
Unknown
Only for that we have not yet tread upon it

12/9/2022 – a fire am I

On December 9, 2022December 7, 2022 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

A fire am I
Not still
Not cool
Not waiting

But fluid
Full of heat
Destroying and creating
From the dead of the world
I make what has not been seen before
And in the briefest moment
After too many breaths
It disappears

But I remain
Fire

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