Why, then, do I dream?
The earth is bountiful
The universe, generous
Love surrounds me
My beating heart
Why, then, do I dream?
Tag: poetry
7/1/2021 – a gift
Not idly does the sun
Rise o’er the horizon line
Each day it brings
Is a gift
6/30/2021 – dancing with the tide
A boundless ocean, wild and wide
Where I go dancing with the tide
Its tallest waves I will bestride
Upon Earth’s free and endless side
6/29/2021
So often my thoughts turn
Spin
Run
When I would have them be still
6/28/2021 – a haiku
When does a sunrise
Cease and become the morning?
Do we really know?
6/26/2021 – a day well spent (a haiku)
A day spent with you
Whether out or on the couch
Is a day well-spent
Since we locked eyes
By firelight did I see your eyes
The first they locked on mine
And burrowed beneath my disguise
With clarity divine
You saw beneath the hardened shell
I’d built upon my skin
And saw into the untapped well
Of spirit trapped within
And patiently you chipped away
At walls both thick and thin
‘Til flooding in came light of day
O’er my heart’s raucous din
So since we locked eyes in the red
And flick’ring light of dying fire
E’er have I owed, my belovéd,
To you my love and my desire.
6/24/2021 – sunset
Why does the sun shimmer and wink
When passing ‘neath th’horizon line?
Why must it tease in orange and pink
As red pours ‘cross the skies like wine?
6/23/2021 – tomorrow, and a bright sunrise
A year here, a year there
So often I long for freer air
Yet pine here, there
A year is not small
Not short. Not when time’s all
We have, at times
So I look to tomorrow
Not to next year, next decade in sorrow
To tomorrow
And a bright sunrise
6/22/2021 – not the one
I look about and find
Every happiness
And yet my soul cries out:
This place is not the one
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