Poems

Soul Wounds

Silent nights echo the heart’s haunting plea,

Where shadows clutch memories, longing to be free.

Every scar carved deep is a chapter unspoken,

A testament to battles that left us heartbroken.

From the abyss of despair, where light barely gleams,

We navigate through darkness, unravelling dreams.

Yet in the depths of anguish, a flicker ignites,

Healing whispers softly, awakening the night.

Beauty rises from ashes, forged in the fire,

In the crucible of suffering, we find our desire.

The potter’s hands sculpt us, moulding pain into art,

Transforming the shattered pieces that once tore apart.

The journey is serpentine, fraught with sharp bends,

Each step through the labyrinth, where the heart transcends.

In the silence of longing, resilience is born,

As faith weaves its thread through the fabric of scorn.

Each breath is a promise, a chance to embrace,

The shadows that linger, the grief we must face.

In the ocean of healing, we learn to forgive,

To release all the burdens, so we may truly live.

With courage as our compass and truth as our guide,

We venture into the light, where our spirits collide.

Healing is a journey, a pilgrimage profound,

Where wounds become wisdom, tho’ silence resounds.

As hands reach toward grace, we shatter the chains,

With hearts unguarded, embracing the rains.

For every scar tells a story of courage and fight,

A testament to the journey that leads us to light.

Through the valleys of sorrow, we emerge reborn,

With strength forged in struggle, like the promise of dawn.

Healing is not absence but the acceptance of scars,

A dance with the shadows, a communion with stars.

– Douglas Barnes

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On God and Man

The sun salutes unchartered lights

Mountains built with acquainted skies

For beneath its grandeur it has quaked before

Upon a millennia’s tempered core

Aa the verdor of Earth doth fade away

An ovation will rise in eternal daze

A nuanced rejoicing, a morselled essence

Thus spectra, Your infinity hence

Lord, even the fleeting wonder of days

passes upon memories to acknowledge your grace

But man is as fair

and no further beyond

the auspices of orchids

that delight so long

A lily’s repose, his mortal cess

a billionth of all

one consciousness

Within his whispered

fading breath

with oceans stilled

on mooned sunsets.

– Orrett Burke