Wednesday, January 22, 2020

My Name is Water

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Linking with earthweal for the weekly challenge ~ water

The sea hath no king but God alone. ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti

My father is a sky full of clouds and he weeps
For season that shall never be
My mother holds to her bosom
All that is left of me
I flow to the farthest oceans
Through rivers tattered with waste
Hurting those I lean close to
By the ones that have chosen to take.

Saturday, January 11, 2020

Hunters of Truth

Linking with the Sunday Muse for Muse # 90
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“They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.”
~ Zora Neale Hurston


The poet’s heart is a fox that sees the world in darkness and in light
his eyes pregnant with possibilities and yet empty from the fight

It is an inner struggle to recollect and yet a hunt that drives him further from his home
A quest into the wilds of hunger among the many creatures yet still alone

You see life is sharpened arrows yet doves that shall fly far beyond harms way
It is the winds of a thousand storms, but one companion that keeps him safe

All the beauty within starlight and the hurt that blinds him from the seen
Are the questions that keep him hunting for a reason to believe

For the poet is a dreamer that ponders meaning while searching for hope in flight
And he hunts the darkest of forests longing to capture the truest light.