wpadmin – Page 167

Life’s simple pleasures
Are often overlooked by
Those who need them most

Cherish today, for
tomorrow’s promise is too
easily broken

A humid spring day
Sudden rain soaks the asphalt
And leaves it steaming

Crowns of barren trees
Dipped in the gold of sunrise
Turn to burnished bronze

Crystals born of dust
Falling from the firmament
Alight on my tongue

Winter’s minion howls
It’s frigid moonlight keening
Rends the mind and soul

Midnight’s lustrous moon
Bears witness to the promise
Of the newborn year.

Winter’s trees stand watch
Their last recalcitrant leaves
Heralding the spring

In a basement bar
Listening to live music
With my lovely wife

Unburdened release
Fetters of my own design
Finally unlocked