Renewal Poetry

Mast Away

The waves have once more abated, their calmness saturating
How unreal it is to see them now as so
When the storm had turned them into ungodly beasts
Their bodies like iron, their mouths as their peaks

To venture in this world between the sky and the sea
Governed by the sun by day and the stars when the crew sleeps
As I follow the spirit of the journey that lays before me
I can only look ahead for the port that my eyes can now see

A refuge from the swaying waters, a home for a sea dweller
Where the wine tastes like roses, the people all relatives
Yet as the shore welcomes wave after wave, I remember
That my time in the port is not forever

Because a ship is made for the seas, and not for safe comfort

Michael Aquilina 06.06.2023

Frontier

Silence in the trees, stark moments lost at sea
Unable to witness what is swept away by a breeze
A soul that has gone through sand, fire and ice
That at time has no one but itself to fight

In the tribulations of an unknown decree
Where the self is seen as a solution lost in eternity
Withheld from the forces that had once set it free
Now stands mighty for all others to see

To be oneself in a world of imitation
Is but a rebellion unto an insurrection
Where insanity is held accountable to reason
Behold the temperate man and his seasons

Where the one is not alone but found in infinity

Michael Aquilina 23.06.2023

Golden Skies

Crown the willing and lead them to the throne
Let gold make them of fire, their fervour to never tire
Give the standing a means to be true
For it is the way of the forgiving few

While the days pass and become centuries
Our lifelines become part of one another’s history
We come into this world bearing gifts of diamonds
Their value indescribable, their touch insurmountable

For who tries to be more than who he is?
Is one not defying the will that made him this?
In a world where the golden bulls are burnt to ashes
Let the rain quench the thirst of the valiant heroes and heroines

Those who march on in the quest of faith and meaning

Michael Aquilina 24.06.2023

Brotherhood

Untold words that span the distance between us
Not unkind in their nature, and not lost forever
Just as time is between the thought and intention
So too can we traverse out divided attention

Foregone are the events in the past that separate us
Forgiven from the heart are any transgressions
See the matter as a trivial dispute
If you feel guilty, then let the light shine into you

Unable to do any more than to say the unsaid
In the hope that it is better than left for dead
Know that these words are spoken deeply
For a brother is of no fault when his heart speaks truly

And let our kinship find a new flame

Michael Aquilina 25.06.2023

Jade

Time as it passes leaving no trace behind
Only a strewn of memories, digital fantasies
We lunge forward towards future possibilities
As we take the present with calm equanimity

Shaped by adversity, assailed by the invisible enemy
Where a path was once toiled and repeatedly heavy
Now become a common everyday journey
A sculptor of one’s soul, the one forming the whole

United with the clouds by the rain descending
Unapologetic to the world coldly surrounding
As the reality shifts in between the truths
Let the blaze of reason bear its fruits

In the world forever untamed

Michael Aquilina 28.06.2023

Valiant

Ablaze by the world I have been thrown into
Yet the fires aren’t warm, they are cold and torn
They speak your name in thunderous calls
Softly making their mark onwards to a redeeming fall

Listening to their chants that are colours at play
Some shape into endless forms, others call forth storms
Alive in the wonder of that which is real
Unable to describe the senses of how it feels

But what would lead to an understanding of the whole?
I am neither valiant, nor from a complete home
The make up of what is real creates a veil of silver
Yet who is there to lend me a moment of gold?

In the trials of that which make us human

Michael Aquilina 26.11.2023