What Passes for Passing

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Omar N. Bradley

A door framed
In the desert
Open
The sands pass
Nothing more

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What mother takes
Of a sunny disposition
is returned
In the thaw

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A little
wrong
is still
mostly
right

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pass (v.)

late 13c., passen (transitive), “to go by (something),” also “to cross over,” from Old French passer “to pass” (11c.), from Vulgar Latin *passare “to step, walk, pass”

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Call me through the veil
I will walk in my sleep
To find you

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A tilted town
Jilted by progress
Yearning for bigger lights
Fades
Fades
Lost
And never found

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We pass
In the hall
Figures
In fortitude
Our
Eyes meet
And
fasten
The facade

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Weekly Theme:
Open Form Poetry

Open form poems, often still referred to as “free verse” poems, do not use regular rhythmic patterns (i.e., metric feet), are usually unrhymed, have varying line lengths, and have no set line groupings.

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