Thoughts

If I can look beyond
And see forever in
The quiet moment
Of a waking sun,
I must have eternity
In each moment I breathe
Each horizon I wander to,
Each moment
Of each second
Spent beside you.
Daffodils dance
In cool dawn,
Beckoning
Come join
The shadow play
Of another day.

To see ghosts (NaPoWriMo)

On day twenty five…
I saw a ghost,
Would you believe me if I told you
That I saw a ghost more than once?
I knew when he was going to surgery
He was not coming back,
I held his hand,
I saw a ghost of the man he had been
When I was young,
I saw a ghost of a smile touch his old tired lips,
I saw a ghost that held my hand,
In silence we sat
We knew, didn’t we?
I saw a ghost
He sat on my bed the night he left,
Awoke me from a sound sleep
I saw a ghost and he reached out for me
And I for him
And I saw a ghostly smile on his ghostly face
And he nodded to me
Kindly
He drifted away.
I saw a ghost,
A different one,
I found him when he died
And saw the sheet that sheltered his bed
In the dark basement
Blow softly with the passing
Of the ghost I saw when I closed his
Milky eyes
I put pennies on them,
Isn’t that what you do to keep them closed?
I went up and called my mom
And told her he was gone
While I ate my buttered egg noodles
I walked out in the sun
Away from death
And I was a little more than a child
But I felt calm,
Sad but calm
And when they carried him up
The big black bag zipped tight,
93 years of a ghost of a man
Who had been homeless
That we took in and fed and loved
And cared for.
I saw a ghost and he was at peace,
He came to me and sat down beside me,
And I smiled and said say hi to your mom
Because he had seen her in her passing
And told me the story of seeing ghosts
And I thought it was so very cool
And I guess I was prepared and ready
When I saw a ghost,
I sent peace and felt the spirit
As it waved goodbye.

And now for our (optional) prompt. Anaphora is a literary term for the practice of repeating certain words or phrases at the beginning of multiple clauses or, in the case of a poem, multiple lines. The phrase “A time to,” as used in the third Chapter of Ecclesiastes, is a good example of anaphora. But you don’t have to be the Old Testament (or a Byrds song) to use anaphora.

Full heart

Quiet place
Drop by drop
Filled heart
Rippling.
Unexpected
Beauty found
To look down
And find love.
Symbol of rainy day
Puddles created
A gift
To the eye.
Shoes off
Walking in water
Warm summer days
Complete.
Let the rain fall down
Softly on my shoulders
I lift my face
To the sky.
A full heart.