an anthology of original poetry and stories, by daelynn e.d.h.
well lit in darkness
each breath a testament
to the struggle it is
to stay alive in a breathless world
where shadow shifts to brightness
and wrong morphs to “only choice”
for all we know
heartache is the worst simulation
in a long line of pain-filled dreams
bitterness springs to lips
enticing them to bite
to break the cord that spans between
it snaps
broken
scored
and regret is all that’s left behind
-dedh
Did I love?
Did birds
ever soft
ever gentle
ever true
ever speak to me the way
you claimed they spoke to you?
Did the woods I know and love
one day become your home too?
contrite and resigned-
I’ll bury our hatchet
the one you tossed over your shoulder
without waiting to see it hit its mark
I’ll bury it in my heart.
-dedh
trees sway in austere
winds, each sigh forming sorrow
until the eons fade.
I have been here once
just once before in this quiet,
and yet, I am home.
come here, my dear one,
leave some room near your heart, for
I will not leave you.
oceans have been swept
into the darkness of earth,
raging at the middle.
sun torn fallen leaves
drape themselves over lonesome
echoes of time lost
in these everlost
memorizations of our
lives, we let it go.
“Somehow it has all
added up to song —
earth, air, rain and light,
the labor and the heat,
the mortality of the young.
I will go free of other
singing, I will go
into the silence
of my songs, to hear
this song clearly.”
– A Song Sparrow Singing in the Fall, by Wendell Berry
We have a melody
each one of us
that we raise in harmony
we raise our voices to the sky
seeking to relinquish everything
to the One who created us
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