Just published!
WriteSpa Press announces its new release: Poems from the Oasis.
This is a compilation of… poems I wrote, loosely based on the idea of a year-long journey through life. We’re all travelers, and we all need a rest sometimes.
It’s available on Amazon and ebook version also available through Smashwords.
Here’s one from page 62:
Let the Grass Grow
You can’t pull up a blade of grass
hoping to make it grow faster
you can’t speak words
that won’t be heard
you can’t hear music
without silence
Give it rest. Let it breathe.
Forgive yourself.
All you have to do right now
is listen to the river flow
and let the grass grow.
Morning Benediction
On the slate of morning I write my day
Inscribed with simple symbols that cast the spell.
I close my eyes and breathe the trees.
I suck the day into my bones, and integrate,
knowing it is all an extension of myself.
My senses stretch and feel the melody
played on the strings of morning
I hold still for a moment in eternity
as my dreams entwine
and flow through its timelessness
Deep pools of thought gather at my feet
and rise to give me drink.
I rise on the swelling tide
and reach to the horizon
on this new day
in the continuing search
for something so long lost
among the wastes
and feel into endlessness
for that which I know
Is somewhere there in plain view
Something I hid from myself
beyond time
and I know
when I grow
wise enough
it will show
and it will be me
no longer lost.
Until then
I know
I am the morning
in all its glory and promise
L D Sledge
January 29 2009
L D Sledge
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L D Sledge, Author
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Author: “Dawn’s Revenge,” “Command Influence,” “Nimrod’s Peril.” (Available at Amazon Kindle: Click on— Nimrod’s Peril or Command Influence on Kindle for the ebook, or buy paperback ) Co-author of No Fail Hiring with Patrick Valtin.
“We’re all the products of the teachers, the parents, the friends, the rivals that have shaped us along the way.” David McCollough, author of “1776,” a fantastic story about George Washington.
Wonderful poem – thank you so much for sharing! Do you have a collection?