Tag: poetry

Personal conspiracy

Stars, with pinpoints touching, 
Drop whisper songs as singing
Light into my room, keeping 
All else from my heart disturbing,
Persuade my weary eyes, reminding
All who will to softly rest. 

I see their message, hearing
Clearly words of hope, believing
In my soul this truth, receiving
Comfort there in place of grieving:
“Forsake the day, embracing 
All who will to softly rest.”

Promises kept

Solo songs celebrating the demise of the long, Dark Silence.

Fog-white greetings laughing through the fading threats of thinning ice.

Sunrises lingering now to revel and rejoice, 

Renew and restore,

Summoning the stories archived and buried carefully for future readings:

        Delivery on promises vowed at the slow closing of Autumn’s eyes.

        Spring: “It is time.”

Twilight wind

Winter speaks to the haunted side of man
And knows the things that draw him up to fire:

   The brown and gray of sunless days, 
   The snow that snows, and snows and stays,
   The thousand, different, lonely ways 
   Its twilight wind can whisper. 

And those around these places bright with light
Renew themselves in mind and spirit, deep:

   With limb and sap (the snapping blaze),
   To mock the snow that snows and stays, 
   And count a thousand, different, lonely ways 
   The twilight wind can whisper. 

Winter speaks to the haunted side of man 
And knows these things.