Poet's Window Panes

anthologies are a gift 

multi-paned windows, each one 

an opening into a poet's soul

each pane frames inner wordless images

in a search for forms to express 

the essence of some meaning

all these poems look outward at the world

some face south - or east, west, or north

each one so different from another

whether you claim to be a poet

or not, one pane boundaries poems

that belong just to you,  

where does your poet's pane take you -

reflecting your soul in moonlight or

bouncing off the glare of bright sun?

with a new moon's absence of light

and your pane grows dark

where does your poem go?

close your eyes, pivot in place

perhaps another pane

will welcome you