STACIA RAYNOLDS

STACIA RAYNOLDS

A SOUL’S DARKEST NIGHT:

JAPANESE CHOKA POEM

Torment deep inside

Runs into the woods to hide

Moon, an enemy

Shining light upon her soul

Crouched but overcome

By beams reaching and grasping

Her eyes then shut tight

Sinking in the dark of night

Perception not found

If visions of light not seen

Within her mind’s gaze.

Though a light has overcome

Her soul’s darkest night

Warm embrace inside her soul

Seclusion- no longer hides.

THE SYMPHONY OF DREAMS

The stars shown bright

Upon the expanse of the midnight sky

Embracing hope, through the darkness nigh.

The hues of the horizon fade

While hope begins to rise

Within the illumination of the night skies.

The galaxy is opened

A bridge where the mind frees

A transition, composing release.

A blackness once feared

When thy eyes were shut tight

A promise is spoken, through the light of the night.

The chasm finds closure

Placid, quietude merge in

Freedom is privilege, now found from within.

IMAGE OF GOD: SONNET V

The galaxy’s vast open space and time-

Grasping a chasm unknown to this world.

Are we humans no larger than a dime?

Between the vastness and protons curled

Into an image created on high?

Is there a fortress large enough to hide-?

Beneath the greatness of an open sky-?

Protection on earth where we do reside?

A great deliverer mighty in strength,

Reaches down from the vastness’ open space

Where mountains are grand compared to our length.

A mediator- unfailing love’s grace

To be a high tower here on the ground

Below time and space where glory abounds.

STACIA RAYNOLDS