From this Desert by Robert Funderburk
A cloudless day holds no promise, all earth etched in temporal clarity. Night gives a glimpse of eternity, that snow-clad land beyond the burningContinue Reading
A cloudless day holds no promise, all earth etched in temporal clarity. Night gives a glimpse of eternity, that snow-clad land beyond the burningContinue Reading
There is no other happier than I,Neither shipwrecked who finally reached land,Washed up and shivering, ready to die,And humbled onContinue Reading
A half-life passes, others come and go,But no clairvoyant eyes can find the dayWhen what we’ve shared will finally ebbContinue Reading
Romantic figures stalk the desolate streetswhose actual lives are scarcely that romantic.How can they be? No life is that ideal!(RealityContinue Reading
Pidgeon keepers, when I was a boy, Would coop their birds on rooftops, far above The noise of New YorkContinue Reading
You are my lonely place,my quiet thoughts,your gift of moments of lightand dark, calm, evocative,yet and unpredictable. What hides beneathContinue Reading
Shades that deck the dusky sky,That changes hueWith every breeze that billows by,Change less than you.Its colors ever-changing;Its tides soContinue Reading
“There lives the dearest freshness deep down things…“ And there are graceful girls, in fragrant meadows,beneath the towering shadows ofContinue Reading
Last night, while dawn was far awayand rain streaked gray, tumescent skies,as thunder boomed and lightning railed,I conjured words, whereContinue Reading
Down from some dim, distant star it glimmers, Through the leafy shadows of this vale,But unnoticed in their eyes itContinue Reading