A Single Touch

A Single Touch is one of two poems that were selections (in different years) of Your Daily Poem, which sends a poem each day to email subscribers. This is a wonderful site created by poet Jayne Jaudon Ferrer to, in her words, “share the pleasure of poetry.” Each day, one poem is sent to a list of email subscribers and added to a searchable website of poetry. More than 700 poets, both famous and not so famous, are represented.

A Single Touch

The morning is cold

And come too soon to satisfy my pining soul

Better that the shroud of night

Should wrap me in widow’s black

Yet despite the bleakness of my mood

I step into a nimbus of sunlight

Seeking warmth

Touched, perhaps, by some ancient instinct of survival

Face turned to the light

Eyes drawn to sudden flight of birds

Ears tuned to the songs they share in passing

What is this thing that draws me to appreciation

Even in the depths of mental blackness?

The light of life

Rekindles hope

With a single touch of warmth