a poem is a sermon
My thoughts have run to darker shades of late.
I could always blame Daylight Savings time,
but that would sugar coat the thing. And fate
is usually too busy for sublime.
The world seems slightly cooler than it was,
but summertime has never been my scene.
So it’s not due to temperature. Because
it is that way, the way it’s always been.
Early in the morning, right before the break of day, standing at the transom one eye turned to either way, soaking in the silence of the crisp December air, trying to remember what he did to get back there. How does it go? Once you pay it no attention it just slips away and you […]
Again the end comes ’round. The nights grow longer still, and taint each daylight hour with hints of gray. A year is gone! Profound, how time escapes, and will elude our grasping power and run astray. Our clock is now unwound; the gears of our great mill have ground their flour, and are at bay. […]
It is the season for great lists of gifts, and guests, must not forgets, of menus, meals and seating charts, of who sits where and who gets what; of when to this and when to that, of great logistic strategies for if I cans, and oh I shoulds, and definites and wish I coulds; of […]
Joyous tidings! Dance and sing! Born, the sun, and with it, Spring! Birth and rebirth, life’s delight: in dark winter’s longest night comes the spark of new year’s light. Joyous tidings! Dance and sing! Life’s bright flame shines through the cold, now as in the days of old; watch with joy as life unfolds. Born, […]
Praise for the sun born on this night Praise for the coming of the light On winter’s longest stretch of dark We praise the tiny, faintest spark Praise for the coming of the new Praise for the frost, soon turned to dew When spring’s fresh promise comes to all We praise the fire that starts […]
Wind blowing through a courtyard Shattered windows turn their broken eyes on me Blind, can’t see the street because I’m crying for my soul is in the gutter, trying to find release Is there something on that wall? Looks like some writing on it, it says Just six more hours until the dawn Then you […]