Sunlight and Shadows

Finding poetry in star dust, sunbeams, and passing clouds

  • 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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  • Trapped

    I’m fenced inside a cage again

    Trapped in fear and isolation

    Self-destructed my safety guide

    Burned all the bridges to the outside

    So now I rail against the bars

    Resist, shrink back against old scars

    I’m stuck, I realize now too late

    I’m lost and hopeless in this fate

    No – loss is losing those I love

    Concern and care will rise above

    The pit of greed, self-pity, fail

    I will break free of this trapped jail

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  • The Race

    Four and twenty blackbirds

    Sitting in a tree

    Picked a peck of peppers

    And took them all for free

    You can talk to me til

    You are blue in the face

    But do not judge until you see

    The tortoise win the race

    The tortoise is the hero

    The hare is the fool

    In this tale but do not take

    This as all life’s rule

    The moral of the story

    If you really care

    Is do not judge another’s place

    Unless you have been there

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  • Own

    Let go, don’t hold so tight inside

    Stop fighting change and the unknown

    Don’t go back where you used to hide

    Release the fear and worry stone

    You will never be alone

    Reject the voice of guilt and wrong

    You don’t deserve to live in pain

    Don’t let blame sit where you belong

    Stand strong and walk against the grain

    You won’t be helpless again

    Step outside of patterns set

    Push back the past’s influence here

    Don’t live in guilt, shame, or regret

    Reclaim the truth and hold it dear

    You don’t have to live in fear

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