Short Footmarks Poems

EARLY  SPRING



Skating children stop in park
To stamp in muddy  footmarks:
Messy, black, untidy,
Cold, repulsive, ugly  -
A shallow dirty mire filled 
With broken shards of ice spilled.



All in a moment the sun splashes
The blackened ice and flashes
Brighter than noon in my eyes -
A dazzling overwhelming  surprise,
The dirt and mere mud mayhem
Purified into  a coruscating gem....

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When I look at yonder sky in the setting sun
while walking on a path by the water’s edge
following memories as it floats down the stream,
I saw tinged autumnal leaves beckoning me
on the hill behind my old home. 

The footmarks piled to grow high as my height
and they sway in the chilling wind 
with reeds by a marshland,
I am standing by a riverside
that I left behind my home
reddened in the evening glow....

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Poverty may not necessarily
laziness connote,
and riches may not
necessarily hard work
indicate.
The hand of providence
does its major role play,
as successes and failures
to each man is assigned.
Work resiliently before
the twilight of life,
extending the goodwill
of fortunes divinely
earned,
thus leaving indelible footmarks
on the paths of existence,
because one day,
die we all must,
and our deeds to future
generations will loudly
speak....

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Follow where the woods may take you
in your dreams you have been asleep
in the passage where you went earlier
there might be footmarks or a key under a stone
you still are shaken of a cottage
which the wind blew off
but in no matter you don't ask why
the trail to it is still grassy and dewy
in daylight,
without a hunter grazing your scent
the grass lilies by the river align
take a fallen log which spans the half
and sit on its edge
to watch the ripples spread....

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lap upon lap
 wave upon wave
 calming waters 
 ripple round toes

 with each stride
 footmarks fade
 behind
 as I wade

 shoreline spreads endlessly
 birds babble perky chants
 breeze beckons peaceful trance

 oh the ocean's song's
 so serene...
 lap upon lap
 wave upon wave
 each step closer
 to inner sanctuary
 abiding light
 broadening soul's sight

 sovereign autonomy
 splashes on pages
 of my life

 enraptures me
 capturing holy harmony
 within...

 at last...

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