JD DeHart- Three Poems

JD DeHart is a writer and teacher.  His chapbook, The Truth About Snails, is currently available on Amazon.

Witnesses

they say they stood

there and saw

put a finger in the side

of heaven

they say that a spark

of eternity wore sandals

they say the cup

tasted like water then wine

then bitterness.

What is Needed

is the answer

yet another movie ticket,

yet another page

of the same novel

republished as a new one,

yet another friendship

broken and pasted

together, yet another

childish obsession

or does the answer

lie in a deeper question

of faith and reason

I am only beginning to form

Discipline

solitude, the art

of being alone in a full

universe, the dancing lights

found in a lonely forest

silence, the ability

to close the mouth

in the presence of possibility,

the act of listening

prayer, speaking not just

to one's own shadow self,

but aiming comment, affection

to an unseen distance

charity, the act that cannot

be spoken or shared to be real,

a hand or eye or cup

extended to a tired being.