Sweet January

I cannot remember a time when January did not bring me dread,I am, after all, a child of the new year, of deep winter, of power outages,of "don't be greedy for your birthday, it was only just Christmas,"and other such memories that secretly made me wish I was a Spring Child(Queue the laughter from my … Continue reading Sweet January →

moonlit painting

Scarlet ink splatters,Pale snow deepens a blue hue,An artist's brush falls.

Cast Out

Cast out,Silver nets on starry ponds,Catching dreams darting by,Plucking shafts of moonlight,Singing the old songs,That breathe time into the air,And let fisherman grow old,While their stories only grow.

thoughtless

Thoughtless is the wind,To take up my musings so,And leave me... thoughtless.

paper lanterns

Paper lanterns caststrange shadows on drifting ice,Pale light, dark waters.

beneath grey skies

Beneath these grey skies,Winter sun brings meager hopes.A ghost left on read.

I slept for so long

I slept for so long,That my winter feels like forever,The cold that eats away at my memory,And the chill that settles in my throat,Stealing my thoughts and voice. I slept for so long,That spring is a long dream away,Locked away in a cold journal,Sketched in hesitant strokes,Forgotten in deepest inks. I slept for so long.

Dispersed with a Kiss

Heavy hopelessness,A sense of that mortal dread,Dispersed with a kiss.We are thankfully simple,To grasp hope so easily.

Dark Moon

The moon rises dark,Like a shadow of night sky,A hollow above.So reflected in my cup,May this drink be bottomless.

Reject Modernity

The New Gods don't deserve our faith,Who can tend to the Needful,Those who lacked the cool patience,To appreciate mornings,Their endless revolutions,And the sweet sublimity,Of sleeping in on a work day?