a poem is a sermon
We barely see him there against the leaf, a tiny nondescript and timid soul, but suddenly quite to our disbelief, he calls upon the magic he controls. With cunning and a wealth of secret lore, that shatter our illusions of the grand, he hides there on the shadowed forest floor to show to us the […]
Late at night, strange cries break through the vale, And in that echo, the soft beat of wings; A messenger from far beyond the pale, His lesson in the warning that he brings. With glowing eyes he peers through our shadows, And unaffected, seeks our inner guise, which finding, he gives keys to doors once […]
A flash of gray against the sun and cloud, then swift and sure he plummets to his prey; Above the warp and woof he watches, proud, examining the context of our way. The puzzle is the sum of all its pieces, he tells us, seeking balance with the whole; And in the insignificant and tiny […]