Boundless
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We are points too small,
Too brief to measure
In a vastness immeasurable;
A boundless sea
Where no time or distance
Finds a shore.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Listen
Listen
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Better to listen
To the silence of a setting sun,
To the early morning chill
On a mountain ridge,
To the whisper of a breaking wave,
Or an owl's evening glide
Across the shadowed meadow grass,
Or a river's fluid flow
Through an ancient canyon pass...
To the tears eternal beauty brings...
Through an ancient canyon pass...
To the tears eternal beauty brings...
Than rhythmic words
And clever rhymes
That make no sense.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Migrations
Migrations
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There are times that end,
Groups of years that mark
The migrations of a life,
From who we were
To who we became,
From where we were
To where we went.
A time ends
And we go on,
To new beginnings
And other endings.
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Friday, April 5, 2013
Sometimes
Sometimes
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Sometimes
There is no bridge
To cross,
No shallow bend
To ford,
No slack in the current
Allowing hearts to merge
Or minds to meet
Halfway
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Reaching
Reaching
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The waters of the sea
Ever reaching reaching for the land
Ever falling falling back to sea,
Like a yearning never reaching
What it yearns.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Signs
Signs
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Deep among the mountain trees
The light of day was turning low,
Whereupon a glowing castle rose,
While the clouds of coming night
Placed sentinels above the forest road;
All as if to guard my passing...
Signs of more beyond my sight
Than ancient stones
And the dark that rules the night.
How
How
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How can the fallen leaf
Reclaim the limb,
The wind unblow,
A bird unfly?
How the noonday sun
Recant its morning rise,
A life unfeel
A heart's regret?
How can a child unlive
The pains of neglect?
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