Wind Pushing the rain Stripping trees Yet a few Tenacious leaves Remain
Tenacious Leaves
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Seattle Memories
Calming coolness upon me
Memories of walking, early morning, Seattle
Along the peak of Capitol Hill
Downwards through the city
Before urban life starts
Before thousands of coffee cups
Deliver their payloads
Of productivity
Getting Older
Walked to the living room
Grabbed my phone
Nodded off checking social media
Forgot why I went out there
This is annoying
Textures
Textures
Tell me stories
Shapes in the paint
Reach out
Like the dead
Demanding to be
Heard
Forward
What’s my path forward?
Unpredictable, of course
My inner voice knows
The right way.
Now, to silence the noise
And listen to the birds
At dawn
Standing Upon The Edge
I stand on the edge
Where end and beginning
Tumble into each other
One foot in yin
The other on yang
Stars dance around me
As I await the sun
Safety
His soul hides
Deep within old leather covers
Safe upon the shelf
Sometimes pulled down
Blowing dust free
Forgotten poems read
In the fading light
Of dusk
Time to Rise
Beautiful words
Embrace my mind
Yet life demands
My attention
Logic’s Altar
For so long
I’ve worshipped
At logic’s altar
The cold linear stone now
Seems empty to me
Time to go within
Into mystery
The unspoken certainly
Arising from hope
And the love
For beauty
In Motion
Dreams of motion
Cars and vans, across deserts
Sunlight’s glaring strength
The forces of life drive hard
Each day waking
I’m the same bed
With different views
Outside this glass
Wheels sparkle in the day
Transitions happen
Carl Setzer: Word Shaper 
