Book Review: Voices on the Wind by Daniel Leach
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can...
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By Daniel Leach
- Mar 1, 2020
- 1 min
Supernova
The beautiful old soul, like a dying star, Burns brighter as it nears its seeming end, And fills with glorious light, the regions far...
By Daniel Leach
- Jan 13, 2020
- 1 min
Norther
The first true norther came today, With raging gusts of wind and rain, And blew the Summer heat away, And with it all of passion’s pain....
By Daniel Leach
- Oct 28, 2019
- 1 min
In the Deep of the Night by Daniel Leach
In the deep of the night do my restless thoughts roam To the moon-flooded fields of the sky, And they search for a pure and ethereal...
By Daniel Leach
- Jul 22, 2019
- 2 min
In Celebration: 50 Years After Apollo 11 - Song of the Crab Nebula Or, "A Shadow of a Magnitude
Long before the first eyes ever saw me Floating like a ghost upon the night, Long before human minds even feebly Pierced beyond their...
By Daniel Leach
- May 10, 2019
- 1 min
"It"
It plays upon the glowing sunset boughs, When shadows have enveloped all below, And distant, other-worldly thoughts arouse A passion in...
By Daniel Leach
- Apr 6, 2019
- 2 min
Awakening
I awoke one day from a dreamlike sleep, Not knowing where I was, it seemed, And lay still as if cast from an ocean deep Of obscure and...
By Daniel Leach
- Jan 7, 2019
- 1 min
The Leaves of Summer
The leaves of Summer never were so fair As now, by dying season’s light they’re kissed, September’s melancholy, golden mist Descends like...
By Daniel Leach
- Oct 22, 2018
- 1 min
Late Afternoon
My spirit is lost in the late afternoon, As it drifts with the shadows that float in the air; It lives in the moment that dies all too...
By Daniel Leach
- Jul 9, 2018
- 2 min
ODE: SPRING MOURNING
The first soft days of springtime greet my eyes Like a young girl’s face, smiling fresh and clean, The sunlight falls, like hope, from...
By Daniel Leach
- Apr 23, 2018
- 2 min
Father Hennepin and the Great Spirit
This concludes a third in the series of poems, based on the poet's journey to Niagara Falls. Read parts 1 & 2 & 3 here. Father Hennepin...
By Daniel Leach
- Apr 16, 2018
- 2 min
Three Sister Islands*
Again I sit, as I sat long ago, Upon a rock, among the delicate ferns, While all around, the rushing waters flow In violent, impetuous...
By Daniel Leach
- Apr 9, 2018
- 1 min
To a Northern Summer Morning
Soft, cool Northern Summer morning, You often greet my eyes in pleasant dreams, Old friend, who whispered to me in my youth Of love, or...
By Daniel Leach
- Apr 2, 2018
- 2 min
Flight of the Ibis
In the golden light of the late Spring evening, A boy is dreaming on the backyard swing, Swinging and dreaming, as over the treetops And...
By Daniel Leach
- Mar 3, 2018
- 2 min
In St. Mary's Church — Fredricksburg, TX
High above the altar, looking down, The stained-glass angel smiles almost unseen, At generations passing through below, Some raise their...
By Daniel Leach
- Nov 9, 2017
- 2 min
Evening Flight
The sun appeared to linger long and low Upon the Western sea of clouds that day, And for a moment draw the soul away To sacred places...
By Daniel Leach
- Sep 20, 2017
- 2 min
Indian Ghost Song
It was in the canyon in twilight deep Of the mystical desert night, When the shadows creep down from the mountainsides steep And envelop...
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