Darkness holds its breath,A still body waits,Morning has not spoken yet. Ariel breaks the silence,Blue air rushes forward,Speed wakes the soul. The ride is fierce and burning,Fear turns into motion,The body learns to fly. Ariel becomes a force,Hooves strike the…
Break, Break, BreakThe sea cries on the cold gray stoneMy heart echoes the same sound Waves rise and fall without restBut my words stay locked insideGrief sits heavy on my chest Break, Break, BreakChildren laugh along the shoreTheir joy cuts…
Hush little baby, don’t say a word,Close your eyes now, feel love unheard,Papa’s here with a gentle song,Keeping you safe all night long. Softly the stars begin to shine,Hush little baby, don’t say a word,Dreams will carry you through time.…
My Shadow walks with me in light,Soft on the road, quiet and near,A silent friend I never chose. It stretches tall in the evening sun,Then shrinks away at my feet,Like a secret it won’t explain. Sometimes it runs ahead of…
In the quiet room she lay,Breath thin as breaking glass,Yet music lived inside her. She whistled through the pain,Soft notes rising and falling,Like light through a cracked door. Buckdancer’ Choice echoed gently,Turning sorrow into rhythm,Making the air tremble. I stood…
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little StarYou glow in the silent nightA tiny spark of endless lightSoft above my waiting heart How I wonder what you areUp above the world so highSo far from fear and scars Like a diamond in the skyYou…
In A Poison Tree, anger begins like a spark.A small flame inside the heart.Spoken truth makes it fade away.Silence makes it dark and deep. I told my friend my hidden pain.The storm passed quickly and gently.Peace returned like morning light.…
In “A New National Anthem” by Ada Limón, I hear a softer cry.Not rockets in the sky,but a trembling human voice. “A New National Anthem” is not about war,it is about breath and belonging,about hands reaching in the dark. No…
Down by quiet paths of memoryLove once stood close to meYouth breathed without fear Down By The Salley GardensSoft feet touched the earthTime felt gentle and slow She spoke with a calm heartLove should grow like leavesPatient, natural, free But…
I have died before,and still I stand again.Ash on my skin,fire in my breath. They watched me fall,counting my broken bones,waiting for silence. But silence never kept me,the grave could not hold me,I returned with open eyes. Lady Lazarus rises…
A small spider stands alone,Silent on the edge of the world,Patient in the empty air. It throws thin threads of hope,Into the vast and vacant space,Waiting for something to hold. Filament after filament it releases,Never tired, never afraid,Trusting the unseen…
The gray veil walks in quietlylike a soft-footed cat It watches the harbor breathethe city holding its lightswaiting without a sound The haze rests for a momentcalm on the edge of timeseeing without judging The mist slips awayleaving silence behindteaching…
