You stop at the gate
And watch my candle go
From room to room
Measuring what remains.
Copyright Kay Winter
odhranwrites
Poems
Dream of Stars
Sleeping inside while pretending to be awake
The afternoon passes and dusk falls
Still I sleep, eyes open.
Someone draws the curtains
And clicks a lamp on.
Still I sleep.
The stars outside awaken
Nothing will happen here
If I go.
Sleep falls into me.
The roof above me is gone
The stars are singing ancient songs
To captains in prayer
And those in flight
Star to star they sing
And I, a star now, too
With voice of light
Sing too.
Set your course by me
For this season only
Or remain
Forever
Lost.
- Copyright Kay Winter
Vanishing
We appeared only to vanish
Away from all spaces that held our light
Into trees dark with melting snow
Into the thawing black waters of the creek
Into the brief and blazing sunsets
That sank away into night.
- Copyright Kay Winter
December Omen – Star
A star made in imitation
Of an ancient sign
Journeys begun unexpectedly
After long waiting
What gifts will we bring?
- Copyright Kay Winter
November Omen – Early Moon
Up early enough
For the morning moon
Branches bare
We have come
An impossible distance
Copyright Kay Winter
October Omen – Snow Shadow
Shadows and landscape edges
The troll face of trickery and treats
The year about to get lost
Crossing into dark woods
Passage, shadow, mystery, magic
Copyright Kay Winter
September Omen – Green Path
The sky opens behind the path of the year
Waiting for me to cross or follow
Change, chance, opportunity
Green going and snow coming.
- Copyright Kay Winter
August Omen – Footprints
We’ll leave things behind us
The spaces where we were
In summer
the lake water folding over our shoulders
Summer rain running off our fingertips into the earth.
A footprint in the August sand
like the goose in snow.
Copyright Kay Winter
July Omen – Path and Bramble
A clearer path through
Tree and bramble
Bare (waiting)
under the same sun as summer.
- Copyright Kay Winter
June Omen – Tangle Days
A road (sunlight, leaves) visible
Through a tangle
Of days ending
- Copyright Kay Winter
