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poetry: Will Adair
I met a man named Will Adair.
We shared a similar face
and our eyes seemed to be a identical pair.
We have lived in the same place,
twins passing between the mundane and sacred space.
His voice often sounded nearly identical to mine,
but his identity is of a temporal design,
while my identity is made to out last the end of time.
Poetry: Silence
Sometimes you have a lot to say,
and sometimes you should say nothing at all.
Wisdom is often found in silence.
Poetry: Time
When time slips away then I shall dance in the newness of that eternal day.
Poetry: Mustard Seed
I planted a small seed in a stranger’s field,
Unknown to me, it grew tall and resolute as steel.
The fall rains came but the branches were the shield
for every bird that hid in the field.
poetry: to err
To err is human,
to forgive is divine.
To air out one’s dirty laundry
in the public is not very sublime.
Poetry and me
When my bones have faded in to dust,
and that last great obscurity calls,
I pray that God will remember a poet,
even when no other man remembers my name at all.
Poetry: Eternity
I stared in to eternity and what did I see?
I saw endless summers fall,
to be awakened by spring thaws,
as children turned old and the old turned young,
as birds sung as the stars learned to burn,
histories yet to be,
but to be they must,
chaos and order dance in screaming shades of light,
as waters covers the earth
while the Spirit moves,
in a place where day and night fade to one,
bringing land from sea,
and a army of wind makes ancient new mountains sing,
I see what I did,
and stared into eternity.
Poetry: Voices
There is a war within my head.
Voices whisper from the dead,
tempting me to come and die,
yet when I question them they have no reply.
So to the voices I say,
I choose to live another day.
You hollow spirits must flee,
for the Spirit of Life has set me free.
Poetry: Do Go Gentle Into That Hallowed Light
I have long been a admirer of Dylan Thomas Do not Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. It was written for his dying father. Yet I have often wondered what it would be like to invert his work. So that is what I have done here. This is the first and likely last attempt at a inversion of his poem. Continue reading