Flickering sunbeams
Silhouetting living green
In blinding magic
Author Archives: emtwytte
Life’s Puzzle Door
Life’s puzzle door:
You slide pieces here,
Make room there.
Some shift them easily
Into obvious spots,
Completed in one go.
Some shift again and again
Into different arrangements,
Using different strategies,
Never quite getting to
A happy whole.
So Familiar
Words striking a chord –
Old, comfortable friends
Never heard before
So familiar when said.
A trick of the mind,
A wish of the soul –
Not particularly kind,
Calling parts to a whole
Expectations
Easy or impossible?
X-ray of the future or
Predetermined failure?
External pressures,
Constantly applied by
Those we like and love (or
At least imagined so) or
Truly personal goals?
Inspiration or prison:
One or both can be true.
Now, then, or later –
Save what you choose.
Over Time at Once
So many small pressures
Added unobtrusively
Over time, unnoticed
So many small cracks,
Patched constantly,
Over time, unending
So many small pressures
Released suddenly,
At once, incredible
So many small cracks
Revealed completely,
At once, unmistakable
A Constant Chorus
A constant chorus:
Flutes, whistles, woodwinds, and strings –
Feathers, branches, breeze.
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