My Life No Longer Mine

  

My life, my life no longer mine.

A ship that’s lost on stormy seas,

Now howling, raked by winds of time.

 

No longer sails in sunlight bold,

The dark of night rules long my sky.

Each morning yields the winter’s cold.

 

My rudder’s splintered, spit and broken

My hopes awash and left forlorn

Now rocky shoals yield fate unspoken.

 

My life is tossed on angry waves

Soaked by whims of careless tides

Ever closer to the grave.

 

No longer sweet the moon lit nights

No longer smooth the voyage ahead

My life now tastes of salty brine.

My life, my life no longer mine.

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Poem Words

 Poem Words

 

A poem came to me one day

Just a word that went astray

And fortunately passed my way.

No tone or promise, just an array.

Two more floated, then another

Drifted past and softly uttered

A hint of rhyme that lingered long

And strung together, prolonged.

The beauty of it felt so new,

Red and yellow, pink and blue

Bouquets of flowers not of words

Not at all what I first heard.

But bouquets need attending

Rearranging, somehow blending

Until they look just right

Standing tall in bright sunlight.

It’s then I found the words were rhyme

A poem passing through my mind.  

And that is how it came to be

Nothing at all to do with me.

I’m just a catcher of stray words

Passed by wind and songs of birds

Until at once they come together

Poem words from wind and feather.

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