The season is bright
And the green never far off
If you look below
Tag: poems
Sonnet 16 – the halfway point
At this, the halfway point, solid I stand
Having traversed the rapids and the cliffs
And all the brambled cov’ring of the land
The wetted dirt and blinding snowy drifts
My thoughts turn to the journey yet to come
The veiléd mountain hulking over me
The second half of what will be the sum
Of one year’s efforts faced not fearlessly
Yet as the shadows cloud my troubled mind
And unmet trials start to overwhelm
The morning sun ascends with summer’s wind
And I once more stand strong there at the helm
For having come so far to this I know
There is no distance that I cannot go
6/29/2022 – I wish for slowness
I wish for slowness
For the flitting bolts
That are my thoughts
To ease
To follow winding lanes
To break at the switchbacks
Along the path
Up this mountain
6/28/2022 – a haiku
Let me lie beneath
A wind-dancing canopy
And breathe for a while
6/27/2022 – listen like the leaves
The birds chirp and chitter
As the sun peeks out
And the wind blows brisk and wild
Bringing word of change to come
And the leaves and petals
Listen
As do I
6/25/2022 – the things uttered aloud
A punishing, fast heat of words
Runs through the sweating crowd
As fell disquiet undergirds
The things uttered aloud
6/24/2022 – twirling shadows
Bright music is playing
Yet I cannot hear it
For my ears
Are turned
Toward thoughts that do not subside
Twirling shadows that infect the corners
Of my mind
6/23/2022 – a haiku
Flowers are blooming
And hot winds blow from the south
Yet I gaze elsewhere
6/22/2022 – nothing more
I love nothing more
Than to put my head on your shoulder
And close my eyes
6/21/2022 – the blood upon my hands
I walked out on the sunburnt ground
And whispered to the breeze
Asked why it hadn’t come around
Brought scents from distant seas
It told me there was trouble out
Upon some distant shore
One I had seldom heard about
Nor cared very much for
And so the wind did leave me there
To blow in far-off lands
And careless I stand in this air
Unseeing of the blood upon my hands