Category: Poetry

  •  A POEM A DAY 220

    Hear Me? God, can you hear me?Are you counting my tears,do you know my heart—the weight it carries in silence?Can you feel my fearswhen sorrow settles heavy,when I am weary, my soultattered and torn?Do you hear my crywhen words abandon me,when the depths of my distresshave no name?I reach for youon unbended knees,offering what I…

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  •  A POEM A DAY 215

    The Wind Remembers The wind remembers the day you were born—your first breath,the first tear you cried,your first heartbreak,your first love,your first skinned knee.It remembers how you learned to standby falling,how laughter arrived before language,how grief taught your name its weight.It followed you through open windows,waited in the hush before goodbyes,pressed its palm against your…

  • A POEM A DAY 214

    Memory in the Wind I listen to the wind— faint whispers of yesterday tickle my skin. My memory exhales, memories whirl like windblown leaves. I hear his weathered voice call my name— not Mona, but Muuna. I smell peppermint and cracked leather, his boots worn thin. My nose twitches from the aroma of his spit…

  • A POEM A DAY 212

    ELEGY FOR THE BREATHING HORSE Beneath the pallid winter boughsWhere daylight wanes and shivers thin,A sable horse, with lowered brows,Stands cloaked in fog and breath and sin.Its nostrils bloom with ghostly fire,A vapor born of hidden heat,As though the soul, grown cold and tired,Still whispered live through lungs and beat.The leather creaks. The iron waits.The…