Summer’s Surcease Senryu
8/1/2023
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lawn chairs stored away,
bathing suits, no sun will see,
birds’ songs, are no more,
Categories:
surcease, imagery, summer,
Form: Senryu
She stood, peacefully on the pier.
The sun, over the hill, just rising.
In her thoughts, just wondering .
As she wiped away, a lone tear.
High school was in a few weeks!
Ambivalence filled her young soul!
As a chilly breeze made her cold.
Would her classmates be nice or freaks?
She promised God to do her very best.
The fish in the lake, mulled about in aquatic
beauty, yet made nary a sound.
Looked up at her swimming in circles round,
The girl, mesmerized, by the gentle waves,
knew she was up to all of life's tests!
7/14/2021
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Categories:
surcease, imagery,
Form: Quatrain
Why, does existing have to be
a visit of time then leaves me.
Threads of my life are still unsaid.
Silently I wipe away tears
of lapsing thoughts, sorrow and fears;
throwing off spider webs of thread.
I stand by the window and gaze
at white ships depart a blue maze
they have sought to borrow ahead.
Everyday another Sunday.
Every day is silent and grey;
prison of aches and pain I dread.
Why, does existing have to be
burdensome. My mortal thoughts flee
like rain drumming at my window,
then trickles releasing a dam
leaving me brittle to exam
my own conscious; what do I know.
Surpassing life hopes as I winch
loneliness devours inch by inch.
My lips quake and swell at my low
detaching my dying cinder.
I can't take another winter
confronted with the ebb and flow,
not being able to foresee
mental skills decline as I grow
old and suppose to comfort me.
6/13/2018
Categories:
surcease, age, loneliness, old,
Form: Rhyme
When I'm with you the time slips by with ease
This pleasant interlude is most complete
It's break from life's thoughts, dear, without replete
of never ending cares without surcease
Can I not be prince speaking lines that please
and place at feet rich treasure seldom seen
And you'll have ending, my full queen,
of never ending cares without surcease
This promise I do make on bending knees
celestial hosts in heaven know it's true
With me love, you'll have no sorrowing view
of never ending cares without surcease
When I'm with you the time slips by with ease
less never ending cares without surcease
Categories:
surcease, romance,
Form: Sonnet