Words felt

Sleepwalking   Betwixt the sheets I stirred  So off I set to what sweetly called The floor was frigid and cold The night was dark and bold  Among the shadows I groped But careful I was that nothing dropped A way I made where none was marked  And reached where my goal was parked There they shone like stars in the sky The berries we’d saved for the day after I ate a few with joy and laughter  And left the rest so you wouldn’t know As I walked away I heard you groping  Behind me you ate a few with laughter And left the rest so I wouldn’t know                                             James Kaluna  

Beachside memories  Out by the sea on the wet beach sand I was scribbling down letters of a name;  It took one finger and a secand, Though one would’ve sufficed all th’ same The name I found among rags of the past, With the A’s and B’s and Y’s and Z’s, And all the letters of alphabet, first to last T’was a name I was fond of long ago, Only I couldn’t recollect the last letter; Stuck I watched the waves come and go, Hoping to get my mind t’remember better, For the name is of a person I held ‘n’ loved  Who also like waves had come and gone.                                              James Kaluna

Man O’ War Stooped across the shore With torn sails you wore Out from hunting the ore In deep seas, dark and sore Now here your sorrows afore Can’t quite gather why days yore You’ve been at no use more Deprived of war, your very core ‘Tis the hearing of lore Of peace at sea, as was before That no longer shall the sea drink gore Nor the ships you sank and apart tore Oh Man O’ War Vain and hopeless your roar  In times of ease and no fighting more Back at bay, dejected, great your bore                                             James Kaluna