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February

I Must Go Alone To My Bed

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Must Go Alone

I Must Go Alone To My Bed
 
I am a weary wanderer
On a lonesome and winding road.
I am a daily ponderer.
I bear a ponderous load.

My shoes are worn down to the soles.
My pants are rent with gaping holes.
But I still maintain my feet
And earth as a temporal seat.

I have nothing to call my own.
All I possess, I do on loan.
All my possessions I shall shed
Down to the last verse in my head.

And whether I’ll taste victory
Before I face my last defeat
Is an unrecorded story.
But gain and loss I shall both meet.

I have a few more miles to go.
I have a few more thoughts to know,
And my destination to see
When I arrive at destiny.

Shed no tears when I pass on by.
We must face both drought and rain.
It is only torture to cry.
Perhaps our paths may join again.

Every road eventually ends
As love passed far beyond our tread.
Each friendship leads to parting friends.
I must go alone to my bed.
 
~ Daniel F Mitchell

28

January

A Kite

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Kite

 
     
  A Kite

 

I saw a kite caught in a tree -
A dream I thought belonged to me.
I lost one there, some years ago,
In autumn wind, before the snow.

It left me for an urge to fly,
To ride a surge into the sky.
I dreamed it sailed across the sea,
But someday would return to me.

~ Daniel F Mitchell

  
     

25

January

La Brea

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La Brea

     
 


La Brea 

Bubbling, troubled, multitudes wash
Restlessly from ancient depths of slime.
Lives lost in the steaming mists of time
Swell up on a gurgling burbling swash,
Yearning to be free as air, from scum
Churning, loosened from their sludgy slum. 

Arise, antediluvian hosts!
Avaunt forever, primordial ghosts!

~ Daniel F Mitchell 

 

  
     

20

January

Snowflake

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  Snowflake 

 

A silver-white star
Cried, "How great we are,
Me, myself, and I,
Up here in the sky,
The quintessence of divinity,
Masters of infinity.
We are here to stay,
While all else melts away." 

~ Daniel F Mitchell

  
     
 

Snowflake

15

January

Allah Smiles Tonight

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Allah Smiles Tonight

Allah Smiles Tonight

 

Allah smiles tonight
With a jaundiced eye,
Too blind to consider the maxims,
Too stingy to bestow a flask of oil
To anoint the gaping wounds
His scimitar has slashed wide open.

Allah’s smile is barbed tonight,
Another wakeful night wresting
With his magnate bearing, his knavery,
Indulgent in the impunity of power,
Licking his lower lip in lustrous denial -
His only innuendo, a reflection of his fiery soul.

~ Daniel F Mitchell

12

January

A Last Kiss for Eternity

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A Last Kiss for Eternity

 

Save the last light for me -
That wane spark in your eyes
Before you are set free,
While in your worldly guise.

At the close of your day,
At this hour grown so late,
Before you slip away
To your eternal fate,

Let me sing a final dream.
Before you set out on your own,
Upon a heavenward sunbeam,
Before you leave me all alone,

Let me send you reluctantly
Off unto your celestial role -
A last kiss for eternity,
To ease your fear and soothe your soul.

 

~ Daniel F Mitchell

  
     
 

Last Kiss