Stones

Stones

Star-gazer lily
Time passes quickly
Dreams abound
When there is no sound
Hope whispers
In loneliness of winters
Darkness drowns
Thorns crown
Shadows dance
Perchance
Dyes cast
Memories past
Broken glass
A first kiss's taste
Doubts erase
Spirits embrace
Blind eyes chaste
Beauty beholds
Faith's refined gold
Fire's embers
She remembers
Lives tangle
a candle
Words unspoken
Secret token
Heartbroken
She walks alone
Pass Kyoto's garden stones.

By Shannon McKemie, M.A.

Aslan's land

Aslan's land

Dreams awaken
Visions
Billowy clouds
Of a city, a world unseen,
Beckons
Rejected and forsaken
Cottony clouds
Greys shroud
Of a city, a realm veiled
Where angels tread
Do you hear the symphony?
Still strings of my heart
Lost chivalry
Codes written in art
Its thunderous roar
Unsaid words
Narrative lore
Sings caged mockingbird
Mourns what is not to be
Ashes and embers
Mirror what do you see?
Handwritten letters
Threads of life's tapestry
Red, yellow, blue, green
Hushed pageantry
Splendor and majesty
Ravens caw
A tear slips
Prophets foresaw
River trembles
Over pebble stones
Broken vessels
Flawed
Before Terabithia's bridge
Puffy clouds
Crimson light frames
Glimpses
Aslan's land
Beyond the moors
A song, I hear
Wind whispers
Winter is past
He calls
and
I follow.

By Shannon McKemie