We are clouds before the midnight moon,We shine, we shake, we drift too fast,A moment bright, then gone at last. Like broken lyres in restless air,Our strings reply to every storm,No single sound is ever warm. A dream can poison…
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.I stand in my own skin without fear.Every atom in me belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul.I rest on the grass and breathe the summer air.I feel the sun rise inside my…
I wake with quiet eyesAnd let the morning enter slowlyIn The Waking I find my breath Life moves like a soft riverIt does not shout its truthIt whispers through the soulAnd asks me to listen I learn by walking forwardBy…
In Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar, I hear a cry,A soft voice rising from a broken sky,A caged bird trembling behind cold bars,Dreaming of sunlight and distant stars. The hills are bright with golden light,The river flows gentle and clear…
He was once a shining nameA rider of the open skyA hero in the dust and lightBuffalo Bill’s lived like a legend He rode a silver stallionSwift as a river of windCrowds watched in wonder He shot the pigeons fastOne…
I walked with shadows under a quiet skyRain held my coat like a heavy truthThe streets knew my name before people didThis is the world of Acquainted with the Night City lights faded behind my backMy feet learned silence and…
Busy old fool, unruly sun,Why do you knock at our quiet dawn?Through windows and through curtains you call on us,As if love must rise at your command. Love has no season,No hours, days, months,No rags of time to bind it.…
Books lie closed on the silent deskDust dances in narrow lightMorning waits outside the door The wind calls my restless heartLeaves whisper forgotten truthsThe Tables Turned Step away from heavy pagesWalk into the breathing fieldsLet the earth speak first A…
I walked away from war, or so it seemedDown a tunnel cut from fear and timeWhere silence breathed heavier than guns I thought I had escaped the battleBut war followed me into the darkInto a strange meeting of souls We…
