Sunlight and Shadows

Finding poetry in star dust, sunbeams, and passing clouds

Category: Metaphor

  • Supersonic Speed

    How do I chase a thing that I can’t see?

    Where can I map a road that has no end?

    If there is always just another bend

    How do I reach a speed where I am free?

    The answers drift and spin ahead of me

    Just out of reach of where I can extend

    My grasp within the forces that suspend

    Me in this vortex of velocity

    Perhaps there is an intersection here

    Where moving objects meet in the stampede

    If I can lift my head and learn to steer

    To guide direction where the answers lead

    And ride the wind in power, not in fear

    And find the joy in supersonic speed

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  • Stitches

    Running stitches round a hem

    Running down and up again

    Piecing quilts and piecing dreams

    Mending hearts and mending seams

    Sewing love in many ways

    Sowing seeds for future days

    Pinning patterns for a shirt

    Pinning plans that somehow work

    Cutting fabric, cutting losses

    Patching tears and patching bruises

    Basting hopes in fragile strings

    Basing faith on unseen things

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  • Distortion

    The ache was only a mirror

    A hard glass wall of fear

    A trick of the light

    To obscure my sight

    And keep only sorrow near

    The wish was only a star

    A twinkling glow afar

    A promise of light

    That blinks out of sight

    A distracting repertoire

    The life was only an act

    A shell with stuffing packed

    A play thing too light

    To keep within sight

    And let me keep hiding from fact

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  • Star Dust

    Shooting stars

    Twilight dusk

    Memories appear

    Twinkling lights

    Points in time

    Gather far and near

    Distant orbs

    Galaxies

    Now seen crystal clear

    Midnight tiptoes here

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  • Long Road

    How do I find the way from here

    Past this pain and the chain of fear?

    Why is the cliff edge taunting so near

    Rutted track as I try to steer

    Threatening all that I once saw clear?

    Sun turns to mist and stars to mist

    Shards of ice in a trembling fist

    Eyes that yet burn with frozen tear

    Search for answers in troubled past

    Hope to find a way home at last

    Here I wait for the light of dawn

    Fighting through til the fog is gone

    No matter what, I will hold on

    Through this painful ponderous load

    No matter what, I will go on

    No matter how long is the road

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  • Broken Road

    I set out to find my way

    Many years ago

    I stumbled, fell so many times

    There’s one thing I know

    That every road I traveled down

    Took me forward, further on

    No matter just how lost I was

    There always came the dawn

    I look back on all the time

    It took to get here

    I wish I could have seen the plan

    Through each long, hard year

    But I just smile on days long gone

    All the things I’ve seen and done

    And turn to face the road ahead

    Always toward the sun