Category: Poetry

Focus on Love 

Carl Setzer

Choosing direction
May sometimes be a challenge
Please focus on love

Relearning to Dream Boldly

Carl Setzer

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p style=”font-family:"”>First look skyward 

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p style=”font-family:"”>In the night’s sky 

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This Seattle Night, A Haiku

Carl Setzer

Rainfall’s insistence

Tapping upon my rooftop

This Seattle night 

A Sunday Meditation

Carl Setzer

Camp Gwinwood Cross

Sunlight piercing leaves
A rough hewn cross pulls my eyes
Birds break my thoughts

When I am an old man

Carl Setzer

When I am an old man
I will be gentle, wise and kind.
Full of delight and wonder.
The lover of all who smile.

I shall drink coffee with my friends
Watching the glories of youth
Drift by, unaware that I will
Capture their grace, embellish
It with verse, releasing a poem.

Beautiful birds dancing upon light,
Forever elegant ambassadors of life.

A Desert Meditation

Carl Setzer

Bryce Canyon Mists

Mists through these canyons
Flute playing ghosts echoing
As life continues

 

An early morning meditation

Carl Setzer

The doom of choosing
I’m afraid of being wrong
Predawn tree’s stillness

Waking Early To Rain

Carl Setzer

Rain marching downwards

Gravity’s relentless draw 

Early morning thoughts 

Hummingbirds, Life, Death

Carl Setzer2 Comments

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I watch a hummingbird

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