Another Year
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The end of another year...
The moments pass,
Our lives change
With the lessons of time.
Some dreams end,
Others we did not find.
Thursday, August 14, 2014
The Emptiness
The Emptiness
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The emptiness beckons me,
The desolation of untrod wilderness.
The desolation of untrod wilderness.
I want to follow
Unaware of the distance I must go
To find the edges
That bound'ry me.
Monday, July 14, 2014
The World Without
The World Without
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To the world without
I was always discontent,
Flighty,
In my ever shifting bent.
But in me a spirit yearned,
A seeking to return,
To find again
The world of wonder
It remembered of,
To search the secret 'bodes
Where mysteries hide;
To search the secret 'bodes
Where mysteries hide;
To somehow circumvent the mind
Whose habits bind,
The world of Man
Whose fears debilitate and blind.
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Sunday Fishermen
Sunday Fishermen
Sunday fishermen
Casting thoughts to sea,
Adrift in silent reverie,
Hoping the morrow affords
Another dream fill'd sea.
Saturday, March 29, 2014
The Green Lane
The Green Lane
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What fears did they know
Who walked this lane of green
Those far-off years ago?
What passing joys interposed
The pains that hardship surely posed?
What scant possessions
Did they love that robbers stole
Along this lane of green
That I now so wondering stroll?
Monday, March 24, 2014
A Moon Silver'd Sea
A Moon Silver'd Sea
A moon silver'd sea
A remembered me
A forgotten me
A changing shadow
On a silver sea.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
I Remember
I Remember
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I remember being twenty one,
Broke, no job to find.
I remember the fear and shame,
The invisible tomorrows,
The panic that raced my heart
Through sleepless nights
While I hid in my darkness
Afraid for the sun to rise,
Afraid for the dawning light
To reveal my fading life.
Things went well enough
After that time...
The world turned
And lurched me to a better place.
But I remember,
I remember too much
To shame a jobless man--
To blame the human heart
And not the rule of circumstance...
God how this place
Can hurt its people.