O! Just to learn to bear&hear the rimes of cries& joys, Before we cry ourselves to sleep. Wail-born in sounds of die –we didn’t have to learn to cry. We burst alive, womb-to-hands, sobbed and teary-eyed, Ready for this world’s Continue reading →
STAY WITH ME
Every day I implore you to stay with me
Not to ever leave me
Stay with me through the night
Sing with me in the rain
Rise with me at the Dawn
Meet me in the garden Continue reading →
Where will I go when there’s no race-place else to run? Where will I go when the great bell tolls “You’re Done?” Out in the wind! Clod in the ground! A struck statistic! The silence of Continue reading →
Yes, deaths and loves-lost upheavals pushed one overboard. This voyage’s vessel sailed fine many a year—tacking windward Through tempests and storms — its keep held its holding of songs and breath. Then, that overboard fall into the dark waters of Continue reading →
So many have so much to say- Pastors, Guru’s, Shamans of this and that The Illuminati, Cognoscenti – each a fandom of Cultist this Savant that – Talking conspiracies and scriptured theories of heavenly kingdoms, Afterlife RIPs of Reunions In Continue reading →
O My Love –you were so daily real,
So beside me nights and days.
So beautiful the hold of ourselves;
That enchantment such a special feel,
So shadowed now by the sun’s rays,
So streamed now in swirls out to Continue reading →
I’ve known the takes of winter — the last leaves;
The cold, brittle branches bare in the wind,
Creaking above the grounded yesterdays.
My bark sings to charm that residue within,
Waiting to bloom old limbs once more to love; Continue reading →
They’re out there…waiting!
Some sense it more than some.
But, no surprise with waiting done,
As someday the news reports “I died.”
Oh, head crowned with laurels spun,
But no quarried stone on lonely sod
With cuts for passers-by to Continue reading →