5/18/2017 0 Comments Poetry by Michael SeegerAn Ache of Sadness Unpacking some old books that had been boxed up and stored inside a locked closet in my classroom, this morning, I found an old letter from you. It was handwritten in your familiar scrawl, filled with love and encouraging words about the future. I felt an ache of sadness and grieved for you like I hadn’t in a very long time. Transience I found in a book some leaves I had picked up from a road one rainy day last fall. I could not bear to let their beauty lie there on the cold, wet ground, waiting to disintegrate under the wheels of oblivious drivers. I tried to save them from their transience, as we all have tried in similar ways to save ourselves from time. It is nearly Spring, but these leaves, like memories, say to me, again, how fleeting everything is. And that no one can stop, not for a moment, the constant flow and inexorable passage of life. Changed An essence remains always lingering long after you have changed from a sense of loss-- lost love, youth, and childhood that you knew was inevitable all the while. Self-delusion is a coping mechanism for most to keep from stepping off of all the ledges and bridges in life. An eventual acceptance of that self, and others, comes one day like a warm breeze in an Indian summer when what you thought would never happen does and with its occurrence comes a kind of happiness that you know won’t last very long, either. What’s Requisite What’s requisite is water and some shade moving to a time as slow as roots along a stream where trout swim slowly in a dream of knowing not caught but foreseen. Finding Faith I’ve always loved words Counting them like stars That gave meaning Though words held meaning There were nights like stars When I found no words To hold meaning Which lay beyond words I found faith in stars -- Meaning words, not stars. Bio: Michael Seeger is a poet and educator residing in the Coachella Valley near Palm Springs, California. Prior to his life as a middle school English instructor, he worked as a technical writer for a baseball card company and served as a Marine infantry officer during Desert Storm. He considers poetry a passion and writing generally a way of life. Michael’s poems have recently appeared in US poetry journals/publications like the Lummox Press, Better Than Starbucks, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Mindful Word and as finalists in several GoodReads contests.
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