Tag: starlight
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Cornucopia
Through lands of milk and honey he went, left behind all who watched him walk away to search for those in the shadows who still reach for the cornucopia…
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By the Roadside
So many eyes peering out of the walls watching together by the roadside the passing dreamers going home…
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Prison of Sand
Slow moving shadows across a face of marble a chant to the sky frozen on lips of stone and within, a mind alive and burning…
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Secret on Solar Wind
Away along night-shrouded streets one light in a sea of them trying to make out some message a secret on solar winds that never come…
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Then Out Came the Rain
Yesterday I watched the world become storm-weathered bent but not broken beneath the weight of a painted sky the white glare across space and time…
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I Remember You and I
I remember you and I out wondering what ocean that was We opened a bottle, ready to toast death And out poured starlight with no end So we caught it in our glasses and drank…
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Fabled One
For years I scaled the tower wall Daring for a chance to feel the iron summit And when I reached the top I found you Lounging in starlight and commenting on the weather…
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View From the Highest Tower
From atop the highest tower in the city You can imagine that, far off on the horizon, The fires of the battlefield are just visible As reflections of stars uncaring on the world below…
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More Ruins
Across a dim lit roomEye contact repeatedUnspoken words screamedWind in an abyssThe dark place we meet onceBeneath a wild-light moonAnd whispers of the space we shareBeyond something realBuried in ruins not yet builtA world we might have knownHad starlight fallen more kindly upon us
The Light is On 