Conservative Friend

This thread is for poetry that speaks to you.  It can be a poem or song lyrics.  It can be writen by someone famous, or not so famous, or by you yourself.

Walkers with the Dawn

by Langston Hughes

Being walkers with the dawn and morning,

Walkers with the sun and morning,

We are not afraid of night,

Nor days of gloom,

Nor darkness--

Being walkers with the sun and morning.

There's no comprehending

Just how close to the bone and the skin and the eyes

And the lips you can get

And still feel so alone

And still feel related

Like stations in some relay

Joni Mitchell, " Coyote"

From Sarah's Song...by Jenne Sluder

It's the little things that matter,

Don't put your faith in climbing ladders.

We'll put a candle in the window,

And we'll surrender what we can't know.

Life can only be lived forward

And it won't make sense ...till you're looking back...

A winter poem that I wrote last year. I thought some might relate to it.

Blessings,

Chris in PA

Hunkering Down

The winter sun hunkers down low,

and seeks an angle to the center hall.

The darkest corner of all, now lit,

reveals a lazy silken web.

A brazen spider holds fast and sure.

A tiny raveled bundle trembles.

How many times had I passed by,

oblivious to this hidden stage?

Battles waged, unseen, unheard,

with victims tangled up in time.

We play the spider and weave our webs

or struggle in our clinging threads.

Is the sun a welcome change,

to make us face ourselves again?

Long winters know our secret sins

and warn of traps we dared to spin.

Christine Heaney Howells

December 7, 2008