Passage Poems - Poems about Passage

...Underneath the Southern Cross, the comet makes its way, A trail of greenish fire, igniting night from day. It came from distant realms, from icy, darkened space, Returning after decades, with it......Read the rest...

...Surrender to sleep at last! What a misery, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles. Sleep. — Homer, translation by Michael R. Burch Passage h......Read the rest...

... In the cozy, dark chamber of my womb , you fought hard to breathe, And we prayed. Your safe passage out into this beautiful world a huge concern, And your too-soon departure to an oblivion, ......Read the rest...

...Beneath the dome of an unforgiving sky, a spring with a leaden heart warms up, Around it, whole worlds gather, with stiffened breaths and glassy stares, Herds move, languidly inside a landscape tor......Read the rest...

...In the grand theater of existence, we play our part, A journey through time, a tale from the heart. Life, not short but fleeting, slips through our grasp, Moments like sand, slipping from our clas......Read the rest...

...A dark soul long immersed in a grey world Awakened to a spirit’s shining beam And foolishly presumed as he uncurled His destiny was to possess her gleam. The dark youth’s folly then w......Read the rest...

...Homer translations Surrender to sleep at last! What an ordeal, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles. Sleep. — Homer, translation by Michae......Read the rest...

...My eyes open with the morning to witness the break of dawn and we waited quietly in the room for the signal to begin our journey at noon. The instructions were clear and everyone was briefed on wh......Read the rest...

... I melt into the plural sky its rippling tableaus of tomorrow underneath open light waves see-saws the labyrinth like Delphi tendrils crossing channels all the changing faces played automati......Read the rest...

...old newspapers, stacked, saved yellow and crumble with age something significant, lost if touched chemical reaction with mere air maybe once it was there for all to see an element of fame, reco......Read the rest...

...Infiltrated each other’s soul, now we are a complete image; Neither of us given control, conduits for this right of passage; Restless responds to a cajole, yes we are mosaic pieces; The vision ......Read the rest...

...All I want is world peace In the west, in the east In the north and the south To close your mouth When you're happy To stop the misery During the passage We only need one page To express our ......Read the rest...

...What will you cling to When the art is letting go Cling to nothing Tarnish not the vision Of the artist Not the viewer of his art Cling not To what it might have been Nor what it is To you ......Read the rest...

...Written: April 14, 2024, For Silent One Forgotten Fields Contest Rumi Verse: “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul l......Read the rest...

...My vision is faded and no longer clear, Where the sight no longer compels, from far or near. Can this failure stem mainly from only old age? Or just a normal passage of time, turning a page. It......Read the rest...