Sunlight and Shadows

Finding poetry in star dust, sunbeams, and passing clouds

  • 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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  • Spring

    The warm wind blows through bare trees

    The sun shines brightly on new leaves

    And through the soil, green sprouts appear

    The bulbs arrive and spring is here!

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  • Open Road

    It was miles and miles of open road

    In a world so far away

    Whence I set out to find my own abode

    Where my soul could finally stay

    And I travelled so far with no other thought

    Than to never more go astray

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  • Dreams

    What dreams we have and how they fly

    Just beyond our reach

    They keep us looking at the sky

    Eyes off of our feet

    We trip and fall or hit a wall

    Give our hearts and lose it all

    End in hard defeat

    With nothing left but bravely try

    To stand within the breach

    What dreams we have and how they fade

    Just when we get near

    Drawn by the shine of gold and jade

    Feel success is sure

    They slip away and faith betray

    Into the dying of the day

    Slamming of a door

    But true hope though worn out and frayed

    Will never disappear

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  • Risk

    Take a risk and

    Run with it

    Once you’ve chosen

    Don’t back down

    Follow it through

    To the end

    It’s okay then

    To turn around

    It doesn’t mean

    That you failed

    You always learn

    Something new

    You’re further now

    Than before

    Now you know what

    You need to do

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  • Turning Back the Clock

    Tick tock goes the clock

    Every hour losing power

    Tock tick with a click

    One chime backward time

    Hands toward backward

    Moving wrong every dong

    Rewind til you find

    One chime backward time

    Strike four, in the door

    Of the house came the mouse

    Strike three, here ran he

    One chime backward time

    Strike two, up he flew

    Scamper, stop, at the top

    Strike one, down he did run

    One chime backward time

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