Poetry – Page 247 – Carl Setzer: Word Shaper

Overcoming fear

Overcoming fear
Refusing paralysis
Drinking deep from life

To gently master
Beauty of sunlight, breezes.
Saintly prayers for me.

Sad, this arid heart
Free of disappointment’s pain
Free from tears’ moisture

Flames lick upon us
Mammoth blasts of destruction
Summer’s darker side

Let go of anger
Escape pride and envy’s grasp
Such is peace’s path

Perhaps the best way
To better photography,
Awake to good light

Upon life’s edges
Evading mundanity.
Lovely uniqueness

On a zendo floor
Awoken by gentle chime
Tranquility hums

This is puzzling:
Why it is humanity
That’s most inhuman?

Shining from the sky
Heat forced upon my poor skin
Gentler climes are loved.