Sunlight and Shadows

Finding poetry in star dust, sunbeams, and passing clouds

  • Running in Circles

    Slamming up against the wall

    Bouncing back just like a ball

    Running fast from what’s inside

    Just to hit the other side

    I’m stuck in here, I can’t get out

    Boxed in by my fear and doubt

    Prison walls inside my head

    Thoughts so deep they can’t be said

    Afraid to let in any light

    Lest my fragile dreams take flight

    If I keep them locked away

    They still could come somehow, some day

    I just imagine what should be

    And filter in reality

    Float each hope up to the top

    Knowing bubbles always pop

    Round and round this track I go

    Endless loops of high and low

    Unless, until I find the key

    To open up the door for me

    ,

  • Mosaic

    I am a traveler in a dark wood

    Simply searching for something good

    I am a nomad on desert sand

    A tiny speck in something grand

    I am a sailor out on the sea

    Rowing to something promised to me

    I am a pilot in the sunset sky

    Looking for beauty in clouds passing by

    I am a driver speeding in a race

    Trying to hold onto life’s fast pace

    I am a diver swimming in the tide

    Searching to find out where treasures hide

    I am a wrangler riding a wild horse

    Keeping a herd of cattle on course

    I am a writer with a pen in my hand

    Just trying to catch the words as they land

    The beauty of life is that each is unique

    With a mission, a role, a treasure to seek

    ,

  • Nothing After All

    Something sparkly

    Dancing sunlight blinding your eyes

    But now all you see is shadows

    Something flashy

    Colorful rainbow leading somewhere far away

    But now all you feel is raindrops

    Something charming

    Mystic pied piper’s tune captivating

    But now all you hear is flat notes

    Something exquisite

    Silky strands of velvet, sitting on a cloud

    But now all you touch is fake fur

    Something intoxicating

    Warm sweetness thrilling the senses

    But now all you taste is bitterness

    ,

  • Silence

    Rain pours down with silent splash

    Lightning strikes from cloud to ground

    But never does the thunder crash

    When silence is the only sound

    Traffic speeds by, buses stop

    Trains and semis shake the ground

    Without a rumble, honk or pop

    When silence is the only sound

    Children call but none is heard

    In the backyard, store, playground

    People look – can’t speak a word

    When silence is the only sound

    Woods and jungles running free

    Birds and animals all around

    Without the great cacophony

    When silence is the only sound

    ,

  • Stalled

    Drowning in words, but nothing to say

    Wanting to act, but running away

    Knowing these feelings will drive me insane

    But still I hold on tight to the pain

    Feeling so bad, but not knowing why

    Looking for help, but too scared to try

    Trying to look at what is inside

    But fearing my world will just be denied

    This chaos inside will tear me apart

    Until I can find the truth in my heart

  • Maze

    How do time and place contrast

    That time goes by but places last?

    Time changes place, then time moves on

    While somehow place holds moments gone

    But pieces of both time and place

    Are carried forward in the race

    They seep within us, mixing, shaping

    And unexpectedly escaping

    To mold and meld with future time

    To give life rhythm, tone, and rhyme

    How do time and place entwine

    To mark events where they align?

    Abstract and tangible unite

    And pieces of a story write

    Then move on forward to the next

    Unless preserved in mind or text

    That keep past stories living on

    To make a space where we belong

    We mark these moments in life’s climb

    Through the maze of place and time