Friday, November 15, 2024

Why Poetry

 I belong to the shoulder seasons

those times of luminance wherein the air changes colors

We each have our place 

those boot resting niches


If we can each see ourselves 

in the twilight in the fullness of the moon

wherever despite the brightest sunlight 

there are no shadows 


If we can shout our amazement 

at the blackened eclipsed sun

we might find our peculiar truths

we might rediscover those parts of self we dropped on the way to this place 


When you look into the waters of the breaking waves

there is no reflection 

unlike the face that looks back from still dark ponds


What has changed contains outlooks not to be set aside 

not now

on these times of uncertainty and vast confusion 

where we stand on the same brink of what lies ahead

mostly convinced we are each elsewhere 



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