• for you

    for you
    sage fume
    cloudy mist tint blue
    green stem stalk past
    the pasture where we laughed
    smiling sun upon purple plum
    kiss
    the blossom of her care
    she sympathize the eyes of cries
    regarding butterflies
    delicate creatures perfect features
    pond meadow rainbow 🌈 rose the row of colored crows in Autumn leaves that glow
    then to leaf through books
    that bind the mind back through time line for line
    winter cometh the spruce and pine embark the heart ♥️ of rhyme.

  • heart of sea – for Deepthi

    star above earth below stormy night heart of sea
    beauty bound tremor found as she

    embark green stem
    leaves surrender september

    barren tree lay bare
    in the unseen twilight

    the moon unassume
    move an ocean wave
    half full-cool looming
    in time to bind

    crystal clear ocean air
    random mellow fair
    harbor hail
    boat of mast and sail
    along frail coastal freedom

    light the day perfect in a rose
    enable those rare memories
    in everything you choose
    revel in the heart and mind

    fresh flowers cut from the garden
    a loved one deep as grace embrace
    feel the love receive gently
    call twilight never break

    starlight comfort you
    wind hug you tenderly
    take away your fear
    the sunset in the west
    moon ascend.

  • burnt blue orange flame

    burnt blue orange flame
    great harmony troubled
    chaos clatter bells
    see among the mire
    heart fall in winter
    call contagious rage
    seethe silent grief
    violent heaving stir thoughts
    of her leaving
    feeling foolish
    brood mood consume evening
    slowly chaste raw moon
    give peace
    an incredible place believing
    circumstance follow interlude
    heart felt rebellion twist my confession
    professional courtesy dire-
    love her
    throughout all eternity
    the summer fill the day
    burnt-out August lulled cool
    autumn blew the leaves away

    winter looks colder than a dare
    raped the autumn trees leaves them bare
    in meadow mellow angels throw and catch their halos
    like frisbees in the air
    breezes crispy crackle sparks
    fiery discs dart back and forth
    faceted quartz lite different parts
    humble the tumbled ore
    from deep within earths core
    so are we as deep as a sea
    no sight of shore
    and you coming through
    like you never have before
    I respect your pain
    I love you like the grain of salt in rain

    moved to tears
    the fleeting years come and go
    you’re tireless wireless
    exceptional professional

    raincloud paint the sun upset-
    I pray the angels dry the sky
    gentle beauty in her eyes
    she cries to be in love.

  • an opus

    the dusty road
    dusk a hush of rust and gold
    the evergreens have no leaves
    tho something up their sleeves
    to pine away the time
    tied up in knots
    the needles taught and slim
    to let the wind blow in
    the earth lay at their root
    as owls lay awake and hoot
    crest fallen they regroup
    to feel a chill so soon
    before the sting of winter
    when the sun will cool
    sunlight on the rocks
    cold as ice would freeze
    the warmest heart
    still in the chill of darkness
    life is formidable at best
    for the creatures in their nest
    as a biting wind will break
    the bough
    and hinder in winter
    takes a final bow
    fallow soil
    like furrows in the ground
    another thing
    to wait in the wings
    a harmony of strings
    an opus
    for the closeness
    of spring.

  • where nothing grieves

    polite moon-lit summer eve
    sense serene leaves rustling
    tender animals of the forest
    forage food mildly

    abundance sing bird in grasses
    chip monk squirrel feed their need
    on juicy stem an endless weed

    in solitude nature proves to ponder
    as slow the raccoon go to find a drink
    possum play where stalk is thick
    lily pond to wade the wild grass
    no light when night is black as ink

    but for stars
    before a tempestuous dawn
    has your heart forsworn a swooning moon

    in gentle circles swim the loon
    rare birds fly in pairs to sea
    wild duck ignite a drunken cry
    all the love the beauty in your eye

    end remorse with nature
    wind through pine and evergreen
    shake the laughter out of trees
    fall the leaves
    where nothing grieves.

  • against the frost

    return yearning dawn
    hold golden sun tightly
    pearl white moon alight onyx skies
    opal stars sigh
    wish night brightly on
    chill and ice reduce streams to freeze
    upon the frozen bed fallen leaves
    limbs cold dark unrooted twigs bent
    frigid water reserve the pointy stem
    observe the curved shroud
    lifting her leaf torn head bowed
    black branch against the frost
    shuttering shattered shy sentiments
    slowly soulfully follow a haloed snow blown spin
    humbled by winters wound up wind
    wait for Spring.

  • candidly

    there is a beginning and an end
    in expressing the essence more or
    less the silence of your excellence
    you shine forever in the glow
    to hear the fearless clarity
    a voice
    to throw away disparity
    to thwart distraught polarity
    for a summer sanity
    tossing cookies candidly
    you say the sweetest things to me
    singing songs you bring
    that melts the bakers chocolate
    whisk upon a bar
    that has me in the batters bowl
    chewing brownies from a jar
    the moon is cool the light is white
    marshmallow clouds float in the night
    peppermint leaves fall in love
    with apple tree embarked
    a storm brew such a teas.