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…
