April 25: Like a Song in the Night

 

Like a Song in the Night
          by Tom King

Something sings in the dark
In the wee hours before us.
Sings me off to sleep in peace
And night birds join the chorus.

Something about the early dark,
Night full of the moon and stars
Drifting overhead with the planets
Making music Venus, Jupiter and Mars.

The night in its silence makes song,
You can hear it if you're still and quiet
And in the distance galaxies play music
And stars and nebulae run riot.


© 2022 by Tom King

April 14 - Ripplin' Waters

Ripplin' Waters

There is no peace can be found
Quite like that of a murmering stream.
Me wrapped in a hammock in the crisp woodland air.
Drifting in and out of a dream. 
No rumble of the air conditioner,
To paint over the clean summer heat,
Just a soft cooling breeze off the river, scents swirling
Where the forest and the river's breaths meet.
Deep is the slumber by rippling waters.
A clean kind of tiredness all through.
Muscles stretched loose from paddling all day 
In rapport with a drifting canoe.
Let me sleep many days by the river yet,
Before my long voyage is done.
Give me peaceful days by the rippling waters,
Swinging softly in the afternoon sun. 

© by Tom King

April 25 – The Need for Solitude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Need for Solitude

Sometimes you need a break.

From the news,

From all the greedy,

From the power hungry,

From the predators.

From being battered by a cruel and angry world.

         …. angry at itself for what its done.

Sometimes you need to fade

Into a place of peace

Into some retreat 

Into which a quieting comes

Into the wanderer’s soul

Into the world that He once made 

         …. better than it’s since become.

© 2017 by Tom King