senryu – Page 4 – Carl Setzer: Word Shaper

A Winter’s Day

Snow falling last night
Cold air clamored over us
Ice descends earthwards

Awake before dawn

In winter that is normal

Dawn’s not soon enough

Morning potential
Before the day’s chaos starts
Plans get distorted

Darkness descending
That living within our hearts
Often thrives at night

A tactical strike
Evading the defenses
Safe within their heart?

Work morning ’til night
Efficiency’s tyranny
Our rest becomes lost

Do you feel your work life is balanced with all the rest of what’s important?

News received
Unpleasantly
Deeply tinged
With sadness

Into a mirror
Gazing, wondering,
Unshaven for this
Weekend
Grey dominates
My beard

Change comes,
Celebrated at times
Or with dread
But it comes
Inevitably

Flame flutters
Victim of the breeze
Candles flicker
Departing from
Pedestals
Into the
Stars