What gets left behind
with our unmade minds
forever rushing?
What do we leave behind
if we did not take the
the time to notice?
What is no longer mine
because neither you nor I
could take our time?
12/02/2024 j.g.l.
look around
Be thankful
for what you have, for
what you have to let go of,
and for those who are still
with you. Gratitude comes
in many forms. Look around.
Be thankful.
j.g.l.
cloud songs
It is only silence and only
for now, a minute or three
but who is counting?
Enough, for now.
Slight Repose, a little grace,
enough until you have
found your place. Might be
morning, or the end of the day,
yet it is time to yourself anyway.
For now.
11/29/2024 j.g.l.
I'm like a pencil;
sometimes sharp,
most days
well-rounded,
other times
dull or
occasionally
broken.
Still I write.
j.g. lewis
is a writer/photographer in Toronto.
Poem In Your Pocket 2020
Posted on April 30, 2020 by j.g.lewis
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Had We Not Dared
If
we had not smiled,
had we not met,
if either of us
would not have dared
to take a first step.
If
circumstances
were different, and time
had simply lapsed, or
perhaps
if we didn’t share
tiny bits of our past.
Had we not known,
or had we nor dared,
if we
wouldn’t have looked,
or hadn’t have stared.
If we had not
have written, if we
wouldn’t have clicked,
would it
have become
just another
if?
Yet we did, or we have,
and for that
I am blessed.
Somehow
what we know
has been put through
the test. I think
all of those things
could never have been
if we hadn’t
have shared some time
in between.
© 2020 j.g. lewis
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it with you, and sharing with
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and self-isolation, you can still
share poetry and a smile.
Sharing is caring and we could
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