The Moment

Often at sunset

when the sky is a series of colors indescribable 

But every one of them a hue of violet and rose

It is at that moment I realize

There is a greater world

There is a reality more real than the one I know

It’s not that I don’t like the skies of blue

But it’s that these colors, these phases, these hues

Are stepping stones to a more lovely place

I can almost feel the air

it is alive

These moments are the moments living is all about

These moments are the moments my heart lets out a shout

Because it sees the things that I don’t see

It feels the things that I have never felt

Nor could ever feel

And survive to relive the experience

I simply wish sometimes these moments were eternal

Because I always realize that they are

K, Duane Carter 4/21/12

Hope

Hope

I am swaying in the wind

Anchored to this earth

Yearning for the mirth

Of flight and fancy and feast

Yet leafless and among the least

I reach for sky, reaching through the why

Longing to breathe the incense

The colors they do speak to me

They speak of freedom and royalty

Which is where I’m told I am

I reach out to grab the wind, the hand

All the while moving in circles

Yet there is promise, yet there is hope

I find beauty in the presence

Life in the smoke

I feel the roots to the earth are strengthening

All while the promise of new green breaks through

The clouds speak of a new tomorrow

And the start of a new today

K, Duane Carter 1-26-12

On the Road Home

On the Road Home

No one but God can do a sunset

Unearthly pinks and golds and blues

He takes all of His palette’s hues

And puts together one mesmerizing event

And raises up clouds

Angels gigantic in their forms

And creatures I know not, enormous and warm

Bending their backs in exultation and praise

As golden light rods spring up through the haze

And enter into infinity

Where even the stars come out early to see

The show

No one but God can do this

No one but God can create this bliss

And no one but God could let me see

No one but Him could let me be

And so is the same for you

K, Duane Carter 7-27-10