Eclipse of the Soul
I feel the dark It seeps within my bones, runs through my veins; It is a tangible, moving thing I know it lives Where are the souls That faded from my sight, that flew away?…
Category: Original Poetry
Song of Songs
By Avallina Balestri (alias Rosaria Marie) Word Count: 371 Rating: G (suitable for audiences) Summary: A poet hopes to be a small voice for beauty and Truth. Let my life be spent out Like the…
Spring Thoughts
Springtime comes around, Finding us caught, helpless In the merciless clutches of cabin fever, And it releases us, sets us free To go outside again, and enjoy the weather But only for a little while.…
The Willows Are Calling
The willows are calling The ice-river mellows Sparrows let forth a cry Of triumph over Winter, of hope soon unfettered Captive Spring bursts forth from her chains The oak trees are hailing The light in…
Earth Mercy
Sing of Mother Earth Who we must tend As grateful sons and daughters Born to soil and water Flame’s fury and wind’s breath As our natural inheritance The landscape has a face The rivers run…
I Met a Wolf
By M.C. Pehrson Rating: G (suitable for all audiences) Word Count: 67 Summary: The poet recounts her unexpected meeting with a wolf One day, outside, I turned and met a wolf. Proud amber eyes Gazed intently…
Christos Voskrese!
For Tod *** The world is unusually quiet this dawn With fading stars withdrawing in good grace And drowsy, dreaming sunflowers, dewy-drooped, Their golden crowns all motionless and still, Stand patiently in their ordered garden…
Pascha Psalm
Hear the faint heralds, O soldiers, Calling distant above the far battleground. Long have you fought in night's deepest hour, Long have you struggled, sore-weary, with shadowy foes, But now the sky pales, and the…
Away For Christmas
~ by Patrick W. Kavanagh The Christmas tree lights up, - but you are gone so very far away And yet, somehow, I feel your hand, so softly clasping mine. I catch your fragrance in…