Best Reflective Poems

reflective pool
calm, still, dark, enchanting...
Eve's youth eddied  ...

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Slowly, the hours drag along
As I sit in quiet contemplation
On the horizon sits the dawn
Waiting with measured patience

My thoughts revolve around you
Almost as if I were a satellite
And just like sun, you don't seem to have a clue
That your warm rays bring me to life

And...

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morn of sunlit dew…
jewels upon blades of grass
rainbow of dawn’s tears

© Harry J Horsman 2021...

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I sit silently, so still
On the wooden chair in the den
Beside a window, sun raining in
Baptizing my thoughts
In warmth, blazing breaths
Of faraway wonders

The seat I sit upon
Once was a sturdy oak
Filled with dancing leaves
Sunshine purred through
Composing a song
Of detailed hopes, dreams
Pondered by graying
Branches so powerful
Cardinals...

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Skies clear and blue
Make thoughts of you
Close me beside

Skies grey with black
Bring mem'ries back
Alone I cried

Skies orange or red
Make they instead
Full thoughts of joy

Skies bright with stars
Trade dismal bars
Forever gone



(This poem is meant to be read a second time in reverse, word by word rather...

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I'm in a small café
nursing a hot coffee.
And, between steamy sips,
I spy a curved mirror.

There, reality's a
reflection, not real.
And, like caricatures,
flaws fall into focus.

I know; it's merely glass
with a reflective sheen.
And yet, I am transfixed;
scanning strangers' faces.

My eyes get scrutinized;
when I stare at myself.
And it's...

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What you see is what you get. 

When I look in the mirror I see I’ve got it.
Perhaps I’ve got a bit too much of it.

I walk past a store I can see in the window 
as he walks along with me he’s got it...

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Some say 
 the experiences and encounters along life's paths and ways,
 it's the journey that we're on,
 the sibling rivalry, the parental guides in each direction gone,
from birth to death we do our best on the earthly scene
come what may in the in-betweens.

I don't...

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A Reflective Moment 
Now in my late seventies I have left behind me
any vestige of religious feelings, on the contrary
I think religion is bad for humanity.
Death is therefore not an enemy but an end of 
conscious life. Then the process of degrading begins
and last till...

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When looking in the mirror may we remember how many mirrors the world holds....

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reflections of my past
memories pushed away, will they come back
stories of my life







July 27, 2010 for Linda’s Soul Speaks Senryu...

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I heard the wind again today
it's sound so sad and low
it seemed to ask a question of me
"What had I come to know?"

I searched my heart for an answer to find
an answer for the wind and I
and what I found was the sound of the...

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Losers

Do you waver. are you shy?
When they look at you
do their eyes imply:
"We'll have to make do"?

Do you doubt your reasons,
suspect your goals,
commit self-treason
defer to trolls?

Are you always too reflective?
Are all your victories retrospective?
Do you try to do what's right
and end up being too polite?

Take...

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Labyrinth of Sighs 

Wondering through a labyrinth of sighs 
More platitudes with attitudes that never question why 
A litany of afterthoughts about where we go when we die 
An emboldened range of rude retorts refuting the reasons why I cry 

A canon blazing wartime over...

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Hey Mama - Monique Whittingham


Hey mama, it's been a while you know
you said, you'd come see, a very long time ago
and I prayed that you'd come visit, just once in a while
Oh I really, truly miss the way you've always made me smile.

Hey mama, don't...

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