Create a MySpace Playlist at MixPod.com ON THE BRINK OF AUTUMN DAYS Red-tailed hawk of summer’s end circling the sun as autumn begins, days growing short, lengthening shadows of late afternoon as, leaving summer behind, I look forward to apples and pumpkins and leaves of crimson and gold and orange and to the cooler days […]
TIME-TRAVELING I wonder where they go, those minutes and hours that slip by me so as yesterdays so quickly become fleeting wisps of memories today as reaching back I try to grasp them and quickly jot them down before they slip away and forever lost. Shreds of paper, faded napkins, torn edges left behind, frayed […]
SIMPLY WORDS They make me laugh; they make me cry; the words that flow across the pages of my heart each day. I feel them; I inhale them as they float within breaths of emotion across the canvas of my imagination, their highs and lows spanning the depth and the breadth of feelings long buried […]
TO THE EDGE OF THE SEA Captivating my imagination and soothing my soul, the waves of the oceans speaking to me, rhythmic and hypnotic bringing peace and calm to the restlessness and wandering spirit within my heart. I hear their sweet sound, the waves whispering my name, their melodies calling me once more to the […]
Create a MySpace Music Playlist at MixPod.com LISTENING On those days when I don’t have too much to say, I stop for a moment and simply listen . . . . I listen to the hues and moods of the ocean. I listen to the golden rays of the sun balancing once more upon the […]
UPON GOLDEN WINGS Upon wings of golden freedoms proudly proclaimed, as once again I’m reminded in such a powerful way that those freedoms I so often take for granted and enjoy are mine only and because so many others have paid the price. And on this day remembering those who haven’t yet come home, I […]
LOST AND FOUND By Barbara A Cheryl’s Pals Collab Lost within the darkness, I find myself confused, where day is night and night is day, within this place where nothing seems right as I aimlessly wander through darkened passageways, no end in sight, a terrible fright. In fact . . . . the deeper I […]
UNFOLDING The day unfolds from what was night darkness once more giving way to morning light. And within a darkened space, a void that once had been, a seed finds a home, a spot of nourishment that wasn’t there before; and takes root, takes hold and rises once again, from what had been […]
WISDOM’S HALLOWED VOICE Haunting and hallowed, Wisdom’s voice I hear, whispered in the breeze, winds dancing through the trees and across the mountain passes over painted desert rocks; from generation to generation this unmistakable voice, the wisdom of the elders passed down and sung again, reaching toward a painted sky secrets known […]
AUTUMN’S DANCE Summer breathes a sigh, shadows of late afternoon pointing the way to Autumn. Leaves pirouetting, waltzing upon fall breezes as I marvel at their grace. (c) barbara kausteklis 9-9-11 A Senryu (5-7-7 syllable count; two stanzas) written for CPC “Friday Fling” http://www.friendburst.com/blog/62103/friday-fling-harvestime-hayride/ and Legacy Writers “Byways/Featuring Short Poetry and the […]
