Always
Call to me
and I will come,
my course unerring,
destination a place already
deep within my heart.
This is my response to Thursday Photo Prompt: Soar #writephoto,
from Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo, with her photo.
Photo Prompt
Broken ~ #writephoto
Broken, this heart
The key to opening it,
left behind when we parted
waits still for your return
This is my response to
Thursday Photo Prompt: Secret #writephoto
at Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo, with her photo.
Also linked to Open Link Night #268 at dVerse Poets Pub.
Lost Sunrise ~ #writephoto
Lost Sunrise
This is not how we would have it
This expectant pause before a new sunrise
The silence is ours alone, as in that of absence,
One long lost, victim of our presence
If we were here to witness we would hear
The wakening of a hope that is not ours to share
As the sun would slowly melt a morning mist
So, too, would time erase our mark
Easing the scars we’ve inflicted
Traces of our past a mystery
Leaving others to imagine
Our dream of a new sunrise
This is my response to Thursday Photo Prompt: Dance #writephoto
at Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo, with her photo.
The Fate of the Crown ~ #writephoto
The Fate of the Crown
The road we take will determine
the nature of this crown
that has been placed upon us,
the true worth of our mutual connections.
This is my response to Thursday Photo Prompt: Crown #writephoto
at Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo, with her photo.
Waking to the Truth ~ #writephoto
Waking to the Truth
Each passing day finds hope ever dimmer,
the happiness that once was ours shrouded
with darkness, and that bright horizon
now beyond our reach, making it harder to find
the truth within these lambent dreams.
This is my response to Thursday Photo Prompt: Lambent #writephoto
at Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo, with her photo.
Credit to Tallis Steelyard (Jim Webster) for the term lambent dreams
the permanence of henna ~ gogyohka
the permanence of henna
the direction
of our inclinations
holds no pattern
carefree, the actions we take
the permanence of henna
While outside the required forms for Colleen’s Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry
Challenge No. 161 #PhotoPrompt, this gogyohka is my response,
with the provided photo (© Willow Willers).
Beyond This Keep ~ #writephoto
Beyond This Keep
Lofty as they were, our aspirations held
little common ground. The ruins we share
bring me no comfort, and the walls I build
offer even less. There is more than gray
beyond this horizon, and I will find it,
leaving this darkness behind.
This is my response to Thursday Photo Prompt: Keep #writephoto
at Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo, with her photo.
Perhaps this even meets the prompt from Frank Hubeny at dVerse Poets Pub for Soliloquy.
Standing Alone ~ #writephoto
Standing Alone
All color is drained from an offering
that holds nothing more than the bones
of a life spent pursuing a dream
with no hope of realization.
Like a walk through dry grass,
our journey together has not brought
the joy we sought, with naught but
the knowledge that our ways must part.
This is my response to Thursday Photo Prompt: Presence #writephoto
at Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo, with her photo.
Silent Night ~ #writephoto
Silent Night
Hands, clasped and raised,
slowly open, releasing
hope, that unbounded well of light
in all of us, that the world would know
truth and kindness, the best
of days, the end of all suffering.
This is my response to Thursday Photo Prompt: Angel #writephoto
at Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo, with her photo.
In Its Own Light ~ #writephoto
In Its Own Light
A tree would grace this room,
with scattered memories, moments,
as if ornaments in our lives.
Laced with light, a strand of time
across its branches, this past year
and all that it offered, all it has taken.
A balance achieved, yet where
is the balance in taking a life,
to see it wither before our eyes?
Better to see it in its own light,
that we might know it as it is,
as it will be each passing year.
This is my response to Thursday Photo Prompt: Light #writephoto
at Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo, with her photo.
