Sunlight and Shadows

Finding poetry in star dust, sunbeams, and passing clouds

  • Hope

    Hope cries like the bird at night

    Starting to sing before dawn

    Fighting the dark’s chains of doubt

    Finding a limb to cling upon

    Undoubting the fact of light

    Even when the last star is gone

    Hope fights like the ship at sea

    Rowing just as hard as they can

    Unwilling to admit defeat

    Despite the great dark ocean span

    Fixing on the beam of light

    That promises there is still land

    Hope stands like the flower strong

    Beaten down by the pouring rain

    Seeing through the endless storm’s

    Driving torrents and crushing pain

    Still holding its head up high

    With faith the sun will shine again

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  • Sculpture

    This fragile sculpture made of glass

    Trying to hold in my hands

    Sometimes sharp though beautiful

    So close no one else understands

    Afraid to let the pieces drop

    Who knows what happens when it lands

    Turning it round and round to look

    It changes shape before my eyes

    The light comes in – so different now

    Intense emotions fall and rise

    I can’t tell when I’m touching real

    What is this object’s shape or size

    I’m told to shelter, watch it grow

    Just focus on what’s here today

    But it feels out of my control

    So hot it’s hard for me to stay

    That heat is molding, fusing bonds

    Look through the glass to see the way

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  • Weakness

    When the world is crumbling beneath your feet

    No path to go forward, nowhere to retreat

    Plans go up in smoke, life’s not what you know

    Where do you run to, where do you go?

    When you’ve fallen down so many times you can’t count

    Too tired, too broken, but still battles mount

    It feels like you’re losing more fights than you’ve won

    Where do you find the strength to keep on?

    When the road just keeps turning and winding so steep

    The obstacles mount, it’s near too big a leap

    You wonder if you’re even on the right road

    Where do you find new speed when you’ve slowed?

    There’s only one place of sufficient grace

    He’ll walk with you, whatever you face

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  • Moon Rise

    Great shining orb ascending

    Painting clouds with a rosy glow

    The flaming light breaks the horizon

    Caught in slivers by waves below

    Emerging by seconds into the sky

    A perfect stone of reflected light

    On an ever-changing trajectory

    To project the sun into the night

    Reflected glory of a greater light

    Freely showered on us here

    To guide the creatures of the night

    And remind us that day is near

    While echoing across the waves

    In beams so silent and so strong

    The moon yet faithfully shines down

    To hold our dreams the whole night long

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  • Interruptions

    The time seemed interminable

    Nothing to do

    The very idea – somehow it’s true

    The depths seemed unfathomable

    Nothing to see

    The hard expectation – a great mystery

    The roads seemed innumerable

    Nothing to know

    The long lonesome journey – the right way to go

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  • Path Not Found

    Planets rotate in the sky

    Slowly pass me by

    I hold on dangling so high

    Can’t find place to land

    People all around me stand

    Who will take my hand?

    Ground keeps shifting in this race

    Can’t hold onto space

    I blink, I’m in a different place

    Endless hall of mirrors

    Time’s mirages – minutes, years

    Ringing in my ears

    Grains of sand spill out, away

    I can’t make them stay

    Clashing notes and strange tunes play

    Running through my mind

    Memory clips repeat, rewind

    Searching – what to find?

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