W.Jude Aher

where Art touches Poetry and puts the united states literary world to shame! 

Just a Poet; Never just!

       by: Jackie Aher

 

 

     i heard his refrain when the signal changed he was playing real good, for free. joni mitchell ...Hallelujah. Leonard Cohen

                             

"I cry my Poet Tears across all my country's Greed andHate!"

 

spirit rider

 

dream rhyme

when we dare

to talk of time

in the silence

dare we wait

seconds sound as

minutes sound as

hours

days pass as years

a spirit rider

dancing within the circle

of echoes

time within time

a place for poets

to sing their songs

to shatter the mirror

which holds the unseen

till all the years pass

into a dream rhyme

                               - jude

 

 

no compassion

 

everybody knows

the emperor has new clothes

as he stands and parades

naked as can be

it is what any

thinking person can see

who is this man

a soul who

carries no compassion

a man without pockets

a tree out of it’s season

whose leaves fall

to lie dead on the ground

as music with sound

                                     - jude

 

 

song of light

 

where holds a light

lost

lost in the night

a small candle unlit

searching for a shadow

to cast upon outside

concrete wall

children’s wishes search in vain

just a stain of darkness

where are these children

searching dreaming hoping

 

a young lost child’s song

small and unheard

dares to sing

and music calls to the light

nothing bright

what might be

if all the lost children dared

to sing that child’s

song of light

                                       - jude

 

 

 

 

  Last Update 05/07/2025

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