Fourlinegraphia

  ******************** Like raging waves, my life moves on, Toward the darkened shore of death. Sometimes calm in silent peace, Sometimes storm with savage breath. *** Near the shore I lose my roar, Slowly fading evermore. As I retreat from mortal sand, I write farewell with trembling hand. *** “Never again shall I return,” My dying waters softly mourn. Then I vanish into foam, Like a soul that leaves its home. **** Once I rose, a drop of light, From the deep sea’s womb of night. I saw the moon, the burning sun, And dreamed my freedom had begun. *** I fell in love with wandering wind, Currents carried me within. Through endless waters I was led, Toward the shore all beings dread. *** Seasons clothed me bright with pride, Beauty crowned my rising tide. Thus I grew both fierce and vain, Drunk upon my fleeting reign. *** Seeking gold with blinded eyes, I drowned ships beneath the skies. Islands faded by my hand, Lost forever in the sand. *** Near the coral pearls below, Where pure mer...

I chased the shine of borrowed gold, Counted wealth before my soul grew old. Money spoke with a silver tongue, And I believed every song it sung. *** A woman once stood beside my fire, Not asking kingdoms, crowns, desire. But pride and power clouded my sight, So I traded warmth for endless night. *** Power arrived with iron hands, Promising control of shifting sands. Yet every throne I tried to raise Collapsed beneath my selfish ways. *** Beliefs I wore like sacred skin, Certain I could never sin. But truth moves quietly through the years, Often arriving dressed as tears. *** The hardest lesson fate can give Is knowing when a heart should live. A timely choice, a simple word, Can change a life without a sword. *** Too late - the clock became my judge, Time remembers every grudge. And now I know what matters most: Not the riches men can boast, *** Not power’s shadow, cold and tall, Not crowds that cheer a rise or fall. But love, clear beliefs, and courage true, To choose the...

Life draws its lines in silence, with ink no eye can ever see- unseen, yet etched in every breath, a quiet script of what will be. ✦ ✦ ✦ Lines become the language of imagination, written in the flowing ink of thought, tracing paths where minds may wander, where the unseen is gently caught. ✦ ✦ ✦ Imagination breathes new life into the world, its ink shaping what is felt but never shown- turning shadows into meaning, giving form to the unknown. ✦ ✦ ✦ From life emerge good souls- bearers of a deeper, living ink, quiet fires in the vast of time, teaching hearts to feel and think. ✦ ✦ ✦ From them, civilizations rise and evolve, written not in stone alone, but care- in the ink of hope and memory, in dreams a generation shares. ✦ ✦ ✦ And still, in the quiet between all things, the ink has never ceased to flow- life begins again in silence, writing all we’ll come to know.

  In the hush where words dissolve, life softly draws its lines, Silent sketches turning through the veins of endless time. Each line becomes the language born of dreaming minds, A shadowed dance unfolding, subtle, yet sublime. ****  Breath whispers secrets only listening hearts can hold, It shapes the unseen futures drifting in quiet spheres. Each fragile line, a vow that gently will unfold, To craft the unknown paths beyond our doubts and fears. ****  From embered souls arise the sparks of guiding light, Kindness glowing softly through the depths of longest night. They stand as silent beacons shaping what is true, Forming worlds from visions held in something new. ****  Through woven threads of time, the generations grow, With hope and memory in currents that still flow. Fragile dreams awaken in the dawn’s first grace, Carving out their paths through darkness into space. ****  And in the hush where all beginnings find their place, Life draws again with quiet, ...

  Where are you now, in shadows that I keep? Your voice remains, where silence once could sleep. I walk alone, through memories we made; Each step I take, feels like it starts to fade. The nights grow long; your absence lingers near. I hear your name, in echoes sharp and clear. The dreams we built now drift like shattered glass; I hold on still, though time continues past. I search for you, in every empty place; In fading light, I almost see your face. My heart still asks the questions left behind- But no reply brings comfort to my mind. Where are you now, beyond this aching view? A part of me is lost, and lives with you. Though life moves on, I’m caught in what we knew; Still whispering: “Where are you? where are you?”

  Sweat falls into cracked lines of time, Dry earth rests upon my worn face. Yet hidden seeds of hope remain; In ash, old dreams still find their place. *** Grey hairs rise like stubborn wild grass; Still I turn the soil once more. Time spits upon my face-I plant again, Though life feels like a binding chore. *** Ancient aches within my bones, Songs of loss I cannot name. Seasons and sons taught me to bend, Yet every wound still burns the same. *** Family and fields-mere strokes of luck, When seasons bless, life takes its yield; But when time turns its face away, All turns to waste, like choking weeds. *** No cup is free from hidden poison; Such luck is rare in any life. We drink what time has mixed for us, Bitter as truth, and sharp as strife. *** Debts rise and fall through our lives; Like tides that never truly end. Like an old slave bowed by the years, Yet still I refuse to break or bend. *** A rope hangs tight ’tween love and demand; We strain like bulls that plough the land. ...

  No Season to Stay ...................................... In the ashen hush of dawn, where smoke supplants the mist, I stand-rooted in a silence no longer innocent. / I ask myself- what, in this fractured earth, still belongs to me? / Are these roots an inheritance, or a quiet sentence I was never meant to escape? / Seasons once arrived as gentle confessions- now they stagger through ruin, indistinguishable from grief. Did they ever intend to remain, or was I the one who believed in their return? / I have bloomed beneath borrowed skies, unaware they would one day burn. Was that light ever mine, or merely a fleeting mercy before the fire? / The wind no longer carries whispers- only the residue of endings. If it scatters what I am, what, then, is left of me? / Rain falls, but not to cleanse- it mingles with dust and memory. If it can blur even the ground I stand on, was this place ever certain? / When distance grows between lives, is it loss- or the only language survival understand...