Wednesday's Verse - How the Stories Fly
This week’s verse moves from an experimental verse about a chance meeting to a science fiction verse that speculates on the secrets held in stories. It is taken from 366 Days of Poetry , a collection of mixed-genre poetry released in 2016. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- How the Stories Fly From centuries gone by, how the stories dance and fly, how they dance and fly and bend the present troubled times of men, and how we have paid no heed to every story deed, to our past of present’s creed, denied the tales which tell us how to stop the ever-present bleed. Our souls are running dry, and we’ve no more tears to cry. The days, the days they fly, as we ignore the stories flowing by. Are we too afraid to try, to reach out and catch them passing by, to learn their secrets, stem the tide of tragedy? Are we afraid that we might fly, past defeat t...