The beasts of winter at my door, knock on my weary bones Achy heart and mournful soul, crying and forlorn I long for things that aren’t for me, the dead, and past decayed The time that’s past has yet to come when we dwell in yesterday Like winter ghosts from long gone days I scratchContinue reading “A Winter Poem”
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Reflections
I wrote this poem as I was sitting at my favorite lake. The reflections in the water reminded me of how our ideas of ourselves are mostly made up of other people’s thoughts about us. Sometimes the ideas they have of us are so far off from who we really are that we lose ourselvesContinue reading “Reflections”
Imagine
And as imagination bodies forthThe forms of things unknown, the poet’s penTurns them to shapes and gives to airy nothingA local habitation and a name. – William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
A Love Poem to Fall
Have you noticed the change? The way the day feels different and the sun stretches through the trees? The way the light picks up color from the leaves and moves it across the horizon? These days are somber and solemn and reverent. Our beautiful mother has ask us to whisper. To be respectful of herContinue reading “A Love Poem to Fall”
