As new as the sun
Early at dawn
My native amazement in
Self satisfied style
Filled me with daybreak
Potential and smiles
Freshly suspending
This moment in time
To savor the flavor and
Rejoice a while!
-Kelly Voelker
Poetry starts as an idea or phrase which expands into a message to be brought through from somewhere. Where it comes from is a more magical place than here, or maybe it offers a more magical perception of here. It comes by virtue of intellect, wonder, and the Spirit of Contemplation. -Kelly Voelker kellywriteaway@gmail.com
As new as the sun
Early at dawn
My native amazement in
Self satisfied style
Filled me with daybreak
Potential and smiles
Freshly suspending
This moment in time
To savor the flavor and
Rejoice a while!
-Kelly Voelker
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We are coupled for life
Strangers and roommates alike
My physical body and me
Mysteries to each other
Unable to see
Unable to know
The depths of each other
Learning of new things
Surprises and wonder
We will never understand or imply
We will never agree which of us really is "I".
-Kelly Voelker
Always traveling winding round
Faster, slower, success bound
Long is the river of the prime voyage
I'm at the delta of revision
I've brought myself with my sediment
Like the bottom of a wine bottle
All that's left after a rich life savored
To a large and endless horizon
A large body of water, new to me
With no obvious current or direction
I cannot go back up against the stream
So I sit here in the delta
Letting the muddied waters settle.
-Kelly Voelker
If you've ever felt pretty
Or valued so wide
The growth kept on greening
The branches confide
As though the surroundings
Would have ever more
Of your blooming and greening
Towards expansion du jour.
In years of your habit
Maturing in height
Someone decides
"I'll prune you tonight."
For any who have had their
Trust pruned or sheared,
May your branches recover
More lush than last year.
-Kelly Voelker
It was here I learned
The meaning of bleak
I felt it in my bones
Here week after week
The word whispered
Behind my mind's eye
Suggesting a feeling
Of others before I.
-Kelly Voelker
Bleak* - (of an area of land) lacking vegetation and exposed to the elements.The breeze at dusk was kind and good
So some clouds went as far West as they could
To watch the sunset glow and dim
As shadows drew the landscape grim.
-Kelly Voelker