Poems Archives ⋆ A Delightful Glow

I Will Hold You in the Light

Deborah — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:28:52 +0000

I will hold you in the light. I will hold you in the light.YOU.Who feels hollowed, you who feels as if wholeness was long ago swallowed and the only hallowed ground around you is littered with broken dreams and empty explanations of what might have been, what could have been, what should have been. The [...]

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September’s Bidding

Deborah — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:14:02 +0000

September asks me to slowTo savor skies and sunsetsSip coffee and soak in sunshine September says “Let’s open our palms and listen closer,Let’s open windows and waft in the first refresh of the next season, Let’s sit in the soft sixties dawn and not reach for a sweater quite yet. September appreciates presence and creates [...]

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What If….

Deborah — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 10:24:00 +0000

What if…..the days and minutes allowed us a bit more space to sit with wonder….to wander through August….to read during the sweltering afternoons and stretch the summer evenings into places to ponder? What if….we wrote out gratitude lists and also acknowledged the hovering anxiety lodged in our body….. became curious rather than critical…..searched for the [...]

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Stopping By Fields On a Harvest Afternoon

Deborah — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:20:08 +0000

*my apologies to Robert Frost Whose fields these are I think I know.His house sits there across the road.And we are in the combine here.To watch it cut row after row. We knew that harvest hovered near The cycle of another year. With sweeping fields of golden grainAnd cloudless skies all blue and clear. The tractor trundles [...]

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Tall Like The Trees

Deborah — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 21:06:57 +0000

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I Didn’t Ask To Feel

Deborah — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 06:59:00 +0000

I felt the ache – I felt the tug – I didn’t ask to feel. Depression knocked and I said no,She came in anyway. I felt despairThe angst and acheA turmoil roiled inside. A panic and anxiety,Please let me disappear. I didn’t ask to feel this- I do not want to feel this- Please take [...]

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