Sift Poems

sift, the sands

sift, sift, the sands of time
          sift, for loves gone missing
               sifting thru a passion’s pall
     bows, once sweetly kissing

bend, bend, the willows old

Categories: sift, analogy, appreciation, beauty, death,
Form: Rhyme

Totality

weighing the total sum of existence
is not a skill which is given to us
lying well beyond realm of human minds
even those of prophets and wunderkinds
requiring eternal omnipotence
along with very dogged fixedness
on the tracking of every single change
within unending universe of strange
perhaps why all the gods are too busy
to notice devotees in a tizzy
over all who

Categories: sift, god, perspective, philosophy, religion,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Sift

loneliness sifts and drifts in light and shadow
hope always just a valley behind
with a mountain top to scale
never to glimpse
tendrilled fingertips pull deep
from within
drowning in not being

Categories: sift, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Through Sins We Should Sift

Through Sins We Should Sift

through sons we should sift
God had given a great gift
up spirits did lift

Jim Horn

Categories: sift, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku

Through Soul Start To Sift

Through Soul Start To Sift

God each day gives to me great gift,
And at same time my spirit does lift;
Save from sin,
Again and again,
As through my soul will  start to sift.

Jim Horn

Categories: sift, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Untitled #34 / Sift

Sift harder! Verify!
a pen cautiously pressed to the page
No spirit! You must live!
Crazy welling up from under!
Don’t sit lazy stupid drooling drooping dreaming!
The truth even now is within you! Look!
Before it is lost!

Categories: sift, confusion, introspection, life, mystery,
Form: Free verse