Shade
an ominous day
dark clouds pass before the sun
portents of ruin
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stippled hillsides
revealing light and
fleeting shadows
Category Archives: Death
Direction
guiding my journey
walking with the ghost of you
on my chosen path
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dripping boulders
surging white water
streams diverging
Insomnia
thin walls, raised voices
across the street, it’s last call
in my third floor flat
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crow on a gaslight
fog blanketing
cobblestones
Wetlands
sinking in the marsh
twisted and leafless corpses
wither in the sun
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restive fish
dipping into
the surface
Tired
dressed in homespun
with an old straw broom, barefoot
sweeping the dirt floor
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breaking sun
moist soil on
the coffin’s lid
Pirates
awash in the tide
a ruined galleon lists
her cannons askew
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prevailing winds
limping home
on torn sails
Sunset
windows thrown open
sheer curtains gently wafting
in the evening breeze
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becoming Icarus
flying westward
chasing the sun
Honed
working the block plane
paper thin curls of maple
littering the floor
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a snowy owl
gliding silently
across the night
Pillars
a symbol of strength
welcoming travelers that
seek her destruction
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in the forest
of fallen oaks
a sapling grows
Nature
clinging to the light
for fear I may yet answer
when the darkness calls
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spring rains
surging cataracts
once docile streams