Tag: micropoetry

One Steady Light

Just one steady light
Piercing the darkness
Can guide me through
The rocky shoals

With an economy
Of line and form
We learned to tell
Our living story

Upon the wall
Of ancient cave
A blogger posts
An early selfie

I love to find
The simplest lines
In the complexity
Of nature

Though so reduced
In form I find
Her beauty
Undiminished

A cloudless sky
An invisible wind
But for the snow
Dragged over the peaks

A roiling plume

Like my mind
As I’m buffeted
Not so steadfast
As the rocky peaks

As the snow fell, he slept
And it became
The slumber of aeons

His awakening would be
Celebrated around the world

Though his eyes never opened again

Beaten
Crushed
Defeated

I find the steel
Within
To go on

I scan the crowd
Everyone so different
Yet all the same

And then there is I
So different still
From all the rest

Or so
I like
To think

I listen
For the smallest voice
Deep inside

It always
Rings true

Guiding me through

So goes the wind
So goes nature

There is a certain kind of inner smile
Which accompanies a smile
Shared among strangers
An intimacy to be treasured