This book comprises Volume One - the first fifty poems - of the author's Poetry for Peace challenge in which he had to write a brand new poem every day for 365 days. Starting on 1st April 2018, the first fifty poems take us through May and into early June 2018.
Celebrate the Darkness of the Night
Celebrate the darkness of the night
For in that dark a myriad galaxies unwind.
Rejoice at dusk and the dying of the light
For out of it shall we dawn's brightness find.
Praise the fading bars of expended song
That proffer inspiration for new verse,
Some new cadence or rhythm strong
Born from the discord of fate's reverse.
Be reassured the door of birth's flung open
When e'er the road of life snaps shut,
For each step missed, ten more are taken
And motion's freer when broken from each rut.
Beyond old age new childhood waits
On the flip side of death's gate,
As we from broken shards new vessels make,
New sagas write on life's fresh slate.
Look not behind you, for ahead lies time,
The latent infinity of future
In which there's naught that can't inspire a rhyme
And there's no such thing as "never".