So silently, so swiftly,
The snowflakes softly fall,
Weaving for the frozen earth
An icy, glistening shawl
Category: Metaphor
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Misinterpretation
I never had patience for puzzles
Hunting and searching for every piece
Thinking I knew what the image was
It’s all wrong – my frustrations increase
Finally getting the picture together
It’s not at all what I thought it would be
The good pieces I had discovered
Are hidden and changed by reality
I’ve spread out the pieces still trying
To fix it but just made a mess
This image has crumbled around me
My misinterpretations now I confess
Turns out this is not my puzzle
And it’s time now to walk away
It wasn’t a waste – it was worth it
For now I am wiser today
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Rising Tide
Change moves like the rolling tide
Slow but unstoppable force
Pushing in or out to sea
Inexorably from the source
Moment’s glance can never tell
What direction is its course
Brilliant sky and blazing sun
Paint the ocean aqua green
Tempest winds and tall dark clouds
Turn it to a stormy scene
Sunset’s glowing reds and golds
Calm the waves by evening
Each molecule only turns
Within the wave round and round
But great ships are miles moved
Out to sea or run aground
Such subtle shifts with such great change
Nowhere else on earth are found
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Slippery
Sometimes it seems that all my tires do is spin
No matter how I go, I cannot ever win
I’m accelerating on a bed of ice
And get stuck even deeper however many tries
I have zero traction when I try to make a turn
Direction is not changeable until I crash and burn
I press the brakes, there’s nothing there, the pedal hits the floor
I’m skidding, sliding, swerving just to keep from hurting more
I can see where I should go, I just can’t find out how
There is too much snow and ice to leave where I am now
Until I realize, it’s my tires, and get out of my car
Can’t change the road but I can change what all my actions are
On skis I learn to glide and ride together with the snow
I can turn and steer with ease toward where I want to go
I pick up speed, I slow and stop, I’m fully in control
The snow and ice no longer block, but help me reach the goal
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Height
I’m so afraid of falling
Now that I’ve climbed this high
The rocks so loose and foreign
I’m hanging in the sky
I thought I’d never reach it
Slide back at every try
This height still makes me dizzy
The air so cold and thin
The ground so far below me
From where I did begin
I fear that I’m too weak from
The hard places I’ve been
You tell me not to look down
But where I want to go
To trust the ropes to hold me
From tumbling down below
I’ll focus on my handholds
And trust in what I know
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Storm
Waves crash over me
My boat is lost at sea
Winds gust to and fro
And I with them go
Skies so dark close in
Can’t see where to begin
Hopelessly off course
No way to reverse
Yet there is a light
Piercing through the night
It will guide my boat
If I can stay afloat
I can turn the sail
So wind does not prevail
The compass still will show
Which way I should go
