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Today I went searching

Over yonder hill

Into verdant dale

In search of you

I had let you wander

Now you wonder

Will I pursue you

'Til I find you

When I come

Will you open arms

Will you invite me in

Again to share your garden

Turn the Page

Turn the Page

As the year closes

Press into unfinished
Places and spaces

Still time to reconcile

This chapter of life
In last day of the year

Leave all the dead

Things behind
Grieve and mourn

Not that I'll forget

But there is so
Much more

Take a moment

Yet today
Finish this chapter

For tomorrow begins

A new chapter
A new year

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (17-365Z)

Hope Whispers Softly

Hope Whispers Softly

         -i-

Hope whispers softly
New thoughts
New possibilities
Battle of belief

         -ii-

Hope whispers softly
You're going to be okay
God is bigger than hurts
Don't waste your pain

        -iii-

Hope whispers softly
Take a step of faith
Take a new path
Take a new risk

         -iv-

Hope whispers softly
Receive mercy
Receive love
Receive acceptance

         -v-

Hope whispers softly
Don't die inside
Don't give up
Don't dishonor self

         -vi-

Hope whispers softly
Give acceptance
Give love
Give mercy

        -vii-

Hope whispers softly
In the darkest of night
In the darkest corner of soul
In the darkest despair

        -viii-

Hope whispers softly
There is more
There is joy
There is love

         -ix-

Hope whispers softly
There is restoration
There is reconciliation
There is redemption

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (17-130B)

Fractured

              Fractured

Tectonic plate of relationships collide

Separated by shaky divide

Wound try to hide

So stick to own side

Fault lines navigate

Not seen or known

Fractured trust hesitates

Interpretation of reality shown

Projecting meaning on another

Truth remains undiscovered

What's lost needs recovered

Reconciled place with lover

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (16-357A)

Reconcile This

        Reconcile This 

Harsh words spoken
Attachments broken
Hiding the pain
Heart's bane
Love's risk
Reconciles this

For an allpoetry poetry contest

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.
(16-328C)