Let us both consider how
the gloaming draws its shade,
and how cooling air wraps around us.
Stoking the fire (in a lingering
atmosphere) we will sit
and watch the flames
quietly together and
make a friend of it…
Around us
we see
violets
growing low,
faces downward,
hiding in their own leaves,
a blending of colors breathing out
shades of purple amaranth, lazuline,
burly-wood, and forest-green…
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I am so thankful
my love that you thrive,
as do these mountain jewels,
flourishing
on the high trails
and summits less traveled,
your sky-reflecting soul of beauty
(its love, modesty, instinct and hope)
persisting through heartache and
the trials that test us,
where the hardest of rocks,
that once yielded to your roots,
now lie broken and scattered beneath you.
.
© richard lloyd cederberg
11/2023

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” Mahatma Gandhi
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THE PORTRAYAL SERIES: Poetry about people. Poetiprose insights (good and bad) concerning my family and old friends (alive or dead). This series will also address certain of the actors, artists, musicians, and writers I worked with in college, or professionally, that were influential (in one way or another) in shaping the man I am today.
                    A NEW RACE OF HuMANS...