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4/18/2023 – venture there

On April 18, 2023April 11, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short Poems1 Comment

Venture there
In the wide world
Where the shadows are new
And the trees unknown to you

Venture there
Behind the far horizon
Where the creatures are strange
And their songs new to you

Venture there
Past the known
Where all is adventure
And none can bind you

4/12/2023 – a disquieted world

On April 12, 2023April 11, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short Poems1 Comment

A brighter day awaits me
When I can live with the clouds
And welcome the rains
And smile at the roaring winds
And embrace the sounds of a disquieted world

4/1/2023 – what it might bring you

On April 1, 2023March 30, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

Let the quiet moments go
And bring on the loud
If only for a day
To know
To hear
To see
To feel
All that the music might bring you

3/29/2023 – the stardust in you

On March 29, 2023March 23, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

I am the multitudes
With nothing between us all
And nothing to divide
And nothing to remain
when we are gone

I am little more than the stardust in you

3/25/2023 – prayer for listening

On March 25, 2023March 23, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

I cannot but hope
That in the noise
In the shouting
In the cacophonous din
of hateful words

A silence might slither
Like a garter through the grasses

3/22/2023 – and nothing else

On March 22, 2023March 13, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

Let us rest a while
Forget the winds
And the fires
And the rains
And the snows
And the frosts
And the grey

All the quaking
And the blowing
And the yelling
And the fighting
And all the things outside us

Let us rest a while
You
And me

For a moment
You
And me

And nothing else

3/16/2023 – in that stony face

On March 16, 2023March 13, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

Deep in the woods
My mind wanders
Beneath the dry leaves underfoot
Beneath the roots knotting
Beneath the critters crawling
Beneath the rains seeping
Beneath the very bedrock
Upon which it all stands

And there under the life I know
I find a life I do not
One of centuries
Millennia
Eons

But still I recognize
And see in that stony face
My own

3/12/2023 – till the silence reigns

On March 12, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

In the silence

All is louder

Yet all that is louder

I find I can quiet

Till the silence

Reigns

3/8/2023 – unwooded heart

On March 8, 2023March 2, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

Beneath the snow-covered boughs
I hear a whisper
From the snow
From the canopy
From the wind
From the gnarled, unmoving bark
It tells of a quieter truth
A quieter life
Hard, but slow
Chaotic, but steady
Cold, but full of life

That I might hear that story
And hold it in my unwooded heart

3/3/2023 – dancing

On March 3, 2023March 2, 2023 By adamcallahan117In Free Verse, Short PoemsLeave a comment

The earth quickens
I feel her beneath my toes

Breathing
Awakening
Warming
Shifting

Dancing

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