Category: Poetry

Resisting Fear

Carl Setzer

Facing down my fears

Resisting despair’s summons

Living by my terms

Fearing Our Fears?

Carl Setzer

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This Summer’s Morning 

Carl Setzer

​Awoke by the rooster’s call

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Raven’s Gaze

Carl Setzer

And raven spies me

This face gazing from the stone 

An ancient presence 

A Haiku for Cicero 

Carl Setzer

My dear Cicero
The glorious written word
Delights my soul, too

Seen outside Bellingham’s Village Books.

Within destruction’s song

Carl Setzer

within destruction’s songs
lie the call of rebirth
phoenix’s prophetic
return from the flames

oblivion

Summer’s Evening 

Carl Setzer2 Comments


In the park’s silence
Evening’s calmness filling it
Summer’s light fading

Perhaps 

Carl Setzer

Perhaps I cannot 

Change much in 

This broken world 

Where cynicism 

Valued more 

Than compassion. 

Perhaps.