• a duty to beauty intuitive

    a duty to beauty intuitive
    resume the aspect of gratitude
    felt the thoughts revolve
    around the hands of God

    driven miles taken
    a world of time alone
    from ocean to the sound
    the dunes are quiet now

    heartache put to bed
    that pains a wound embedded
    amend the time resolve
    I am her lamb
    wish on star she is my heart

    stick and mud a dam
    water rushes swept away
    sleep deep till break of day

    December morning
    a moment like a chorus sing
    sentimental in her merriment

    I look to you ever well
    sound church bell
    chimes bright as sun
    morning nightfall

    seems the freeze will never thaw
    pray for peace nothing more
    live life like you’ve done this all before
    familiar with love a stranger to war

    the heart may fail
    as cloud may pale a sunny day
    enter in your magic grin
    windy as a gale

    happy as a reign deer
    love you so
    like
    fallen snow.

  • ships driftwood slats

    ships driftwood slats timber to joyce
    voice of the sea lap salty white capped milk
    a seaman heart a captain’s never ending stein
    aboard the wide planked boards of pine
    in the mist adrift in brine

    chanty town oars curl skimmer
    chunks of ice sacrifice winter
    on shore bury fish bones

    in summer succulents grow aloe vera fertile soil-
    of late dissipate
    the royal sun is not as great
    the heart has been undone
    a chill has come

    blown breezes reaches beaches clamor
    spirits in overcast sky awed by the glamour
    slinky stars flirt with mellow fellow moon
    when the good sun goes to sweet sleep
    with peace and love a hug from above
    where the world is a pearl of shimmer and light.

  • an olive branch

    a greater distance to the sun from earth
    paint underneath my fingernails the work to file
    deny my mother and her first born child
    deep chill my heartbeat still on trial
    older than a tree root rots
    misgivings tied to have me nots
    assert the failures of composure angry hot
    middle of day the right to have their say
    no matter what
    a break in the weather a mix of sun and rain
    our tears forbidden words bring angst a cruelest pain
    a flux corrode like rust repeat the same refrain
    you cannot trust the ones you love so much
    with loneliness to claim no loyalty no gain
    as a moon will wane I think we go insane
    for what is love but someone else to blame
    let light shine in eyes that look deep blue
    as wide as an ocean she will rescue you
    she is my mother bearing flowers
    she is the ear that listens for hours
    she cries the tears when she feels powerless
    she is my dear she is my love an angel the sign of the dove
    offering an olive branch
    on the other end of the phone telling me she loves me
    while eating olives.

  • calm cool breezes

    autumn calm cool breezes blow
    leaves turn shades red to gold
    mesmerise a sunrise glow
    a forest stream the even flow

    virgin serpents bluest sea
    your eyes looking deep
    in my heart as ever was so sweet
    dream met time for sleep

    kind regard the harvest moon
    yellow golden fires flame
    revel light ignite reflection pure
    beach grass stir in weather warm
    soon the ocean wake

    promise you care
    love that will not pain
    i’ll tell you when the war is at an end
    welcome autumn sun
    the falling rain
    in a season fall again.

  • wind

    whisper rushing water
    birds glide air currents
    the bluff barks rough
    long grasses golden hay flattened
    marsh in the harsh of winter
    a heart in the middle of the day
    wispy thickets lisping
    blown biting bully muddy earth
    sandy soil loosens stones running
    shocks the rocks bolder
    under sensitive sky
    massive clouds hung low
    in the dirt felt the debt to hold
    winds fickle forces come and go
    with the strength of a mind spring
    rain crushing the pines
    bent torn
    sending storms
    foliage overgrown thrash thrown
    winds groan
    nature’s warning growl
    a departure
    sun fires bright
    till then darkest night
    when the moon ascends to prowl.

  • 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.

  • a winter’s afternoon

    astral projection
    light years past propulsion
    a hastened clip
    duel rockets tied to every ship
    picking up the pace
    aurora’s pearly smile upon her golden face
    to comb her flaxen curls
    with the teeth of stars
    waiting it out till night
    recedes in the glory of day
    to light up the sky with blue
    the sun follows suit
    as cool as a moon in a winter’s afternoon.

  • a waters whim

    in thistle worn withered wicked worried winter, hysterical eccentric
    concentric troves of
    groves the weeping willow grows-
    the strut admired beginning transpires-the forest run amuck-every
    little fawn marsh golden yellow, the lagging lack of plight into the
    night better days perfumed bloom a musty musk I ask we must but enter
    in confederate strongholds seek wisdom
    becoming to a mortal-heaven help but be for goodness sake the bough
    may break the gist and I would wonder why it takes so long to win a
    hug as after all the fall will fall befell the random night you could
    not lift a life so long a fright has logged the fire burning bright as
    candle burns a waxing moonlight shown white as silver stars carry on,
    forsaken souls receive their gold as sorrow send the sultry sun to
    change estranged remorse with love to touch the hearts of everyone-
    and if in turn the grounds are burnt
    the shadows fall on pavement split-parched so long a summer simmered,
    inclined to toast the berries off the bush-figurative study a deluge
    rain came and muddied the more the body struggle aches her trouble to
    the break of boast to boost the worst most
    stranded, remind the early tide rebounds-take me out to sea-regard me
    as a body of water set me free one weekend night in mid flight from
    anger ending possibility
    and I the guilty party counted on a misanthrope to wage the war to
    open doors-I hid timidly to hear the angels sing a miracle lost-skip
    stones a waters whim-to miss the kind heart melt
    that kissed the dawn of mornings felt-I follow allowing her gentle grin
    that has her in my heart again.

  • in a manger

    it so happens to be
    the incline of eternity
    a rose garden no stranger
    planted hydrangeas
    fish swim free likened
    to ponds of birds the swallow
    hurt in hollow words
    the evergreen shadow
    over earth the magic fan
    that shades her name
    as wind and rain
    upon the plain of evermore
    I ask for sunshine cool in weather
    fortuitous waters sweep
    in fountains parks and green
    the milestones of peeps
    where after all she takes the call
    that answers something deep and all
    the revenue that rage fell through
    was never intended to upset you
    as ever was a fairy dust
    to move a mountain or two because
    I love you more becomes the day
    and kneel beside your heart today
    to ask forgiveness for my thoughts
    that faults deliverance in wilderness remorse
    so wild keen the smiling of
    a dawn to deem her rising sun
    the where of been
    with no regret to give up yet
    I ask you with so much love respect
    to think of me with no upset
    the magic never left your side
    I dream a dream
    grateful for your kindness
    thankful for your wonder
    lightning and thunder
    found in a manger
    in my mind.