New Light

Newlight

Invert the hourglass

Same sand, different day

Gravity flowing

Warm your face

Advance your journey

Glow back

Embrace the joy

Because you still can

Even given light

To plan that track

Choose your own pace

All yours

Gifted again

And challenged

Carpe victoria!

©️Sylphide  poem/image 2021

Early Ones

Early Ones

The aconite

Beneath bare trees

Wake to the lengthening sun

Heralds of gladness

First feed the bees

Though winter is not done

Open to each other

Speak as they need

Seeds started, more than one

It matters not 

More snows received

The flowers have had their fun

Spring on its way

Winter's grip unseized

The Ice Queen's on the run

©️Sylphide poem/image 2021

Ode To Courage

NO I WON'T SHOOT INTO THE CROWD

The red-faced man screams his order

He is not my superior

He is the boss

The authority

The one I've always jumped for

I know beyond doubt he's wrong

I will not be wrong

I am agonized

But I will suffer anything but

The silence of a stranger's death

They defy authority

It won't be answered 

With murder

By me

By God!

©️Sylphide poem 2021