Tag Archives: knowledge

Luggage

Simple travel Pack your luggage Turn to go Just a trip now If you’re crying don’t Let it show What the world has There before you You should know Simple travel Pack your luggage Turn to go (c) Helen Valentina … Continue reading

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Knowledge

Speaking in tongues Through conduits ancient and divine Spirits reach this hemisphere And claw to find their way within Out of the blackened pit of night Wherein they must reside Beware the bite of delicacy They offer riches, treasures pure … Continue reading

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Destined

Take this ring this day and know The secrets that we here bestow The destined path that you must see The learnings which you must follow Wear it proud until you see The weave within complexity Until you do not … Continue reading

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Future Minds

These youths that deride Our older remedies Are the future minds That one day yet will take Upon themselves The shackles of the age And as they age they’ll know They’re only future minds For but the briefest time Once … Continue reading

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Splinter

This cuts my eye Deep within A splinter of knowledge Remembering Digging deep the more I try to draw it out Belief’s a poor player Cuckolded by doubt Tiny rivulets Tearing precious eyes Lethal as a sword But not by … Continue reading

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Shallows

Let me swim only in shallow waters I am too old now And too inexpert To gather courage and descend To greater depths Let me wallow in the serenity That is ambition Finally beaten down and away And take simple … Continue reading

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Scoundrels

Fickle friends and faithless lovers Scoundrels all, no band of brothers Fair weather companions promising all Cloudy day comes, not even a call Would be winners, they pridefully boast Welcoming arms, the most perfect hosts First bitter wind, shutting the door … Continue reading

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Certainty

How quickly now our certainties Slip through our fingers like the breeze And bring our kingdoms to their knees As beggars to their knees We build our world on shifting sand Rely on schemes and dreams and plans But little … Continue reading

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Prescience

I had a sense of you long before you came through my door I felt a chill in the early morning breeze and noted sickness take the ivy in the eaves around my home I felt the earth beneath shudder … Continue reading

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An Education

You were an education to me You showed me what I didn’t Want to see How souls corrode and hearts Too quickly bleed And if you’ve once surrendered Never free You were to innocence a teacher cold The truths you … Continue reading

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