How do we choose to travel?
What is reliable in the rain?
What is our ultimate destination,
for this time, this journey, or
this day?
We move at the speed of life.
Depending on traffic, others
may chose to follow your path,
but not your direction.
© 2021 j.g. lewis
A little cold, little wet,
a little tired and yet
I am here. Still,
full of wonder.
The morning chill leaves
little to the imagination
and much less
to hope for.
Expected, perhaps, as it
always is, this time, this
season is only what
we ask of it.
11/21/2024 j.g.l.
The answers are far less certain
than even last week, to all those
perennial questions or solutions
you might seek.
What do you believe, or
what do you believe in?
Come Monday, you have fewer
questions than you had last week.
For a while there are less doubts
in what you believe.
Whom do you believe in,
and who believes in you?
11/18/2024 j.g.l.
I'm like a pencil;
sometimes sharp,
most days
well-rounded,
other times
dull or
occasionally
broken.
Still I write.
j.g. lewis
is a writer/photographer in Toronto.
Hypothetically, yet ironically,
intellectually constructing a poem or
patch of prose should be far easier
than it seems.
Even those known to craft delicious,
heartwarming verse have surely faced
the dreaded fear of an unscathed page.
Yet, those bards who have risen to the
challenge, or occasion, with steely
mind, fortitude, and passionate
persuasion have found the strength.
So many any of us struggle with
ambient thought, perpetual notions,
recycled emotions barely blatantly
disguised by foolish promotions
ending up with feeble attempts at
stanza, scansion, muted meter
metronomically fashioning words
far from adequate.
Still, we try daily to find even a
slight modicum of a successful poem,
whatever that might well be. Each
line an effort, every day an opportunity
for more than we bargain for.
04/14/2024 j.g.l.
April is Poetry Month
I’m like a pencil;
sometimes sharp,
most days
well-rounded,
other times
dull or
occasionally
broken.
Still I write.
j.g. lewis
is a writer/photographer in Toronto.