John Weber Poet Rhyme

Celestial Whispers

I toss my focus towards the sky
To ask those knowing stars for truth
They wink at me in mute reply
Shedding rays from my distant youth

A flash of vision most benign
Washes right though my addled brain
I beg to view the grand design
Prospects boosted from just one vein

When an infant I cried to speak
One panicky note my savior
All potential appeared oblique
While coaxed to spur my behavior

As I hit ten my mind took root
Grounding my core with books and rules
My tree of knowledge grew fresh fruit
I traded my playthings for tools

Ten years more I found myself free
To shape my world as I saw fit
I swept away the planned debris
Patching my principles with spit

The next decade bore changes still
Seeking faith raised yet more questions
I hid behind my sharpened quill
Ignoring gentler suggestions

The path ahead obscured by chance
Rolls past thousands of smiling eyes
They urge me on while I advance
Pointing my spirit towards new skies

When I study those rapt faces
A shadow of recall strikes me
Here all this time in all places
My vigilant soul jubilee

I can’t deny the trust I feel
These energies flow through us all
The cosmos hold grace most genteel
With mystery stitched to enthrall

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Colin Mitchell Williams October 28, 2008 at 12:25 PM Hello John... great write here John, but... I would have moved the last two verses and taken the third from last as the final... I know in the last two ( or at least I think ) you are suggesting continuance.. the statement however in the seventh verse seems mote emphatic and suggests in itself the continuing you imply in the next two verses... so I would have swapped them the last two as a leading into, the seventh..... er if you see what I mean.... but BRAVO ! John BRAVO !