POETRY

Sunrise There is no Sunrise, we just turn looks can be deceiving Is the love he’s giving you the love you are receiving There is no Sunset, we just turn looks can be deceiving Is the love she’s giving you the love you are receiving I do not wish, I only hope that all may […]

You Hold yourself in high esteem and clear a path to walk Gather al the world you may and pause before you talk Only one and one alone will know the one called you Considering a new approach and not as others do Be proud of all your gifts to share be them great or […]

Carousel The horses come around again their saddles painted bright Our children disappear once more then come into our sight Faces tell of just the moment on a summer night When organ music filled the air and hands held on so tight And all around the Carousel we can believe it’s true How quickly they […]

Castles Down by the water where children play Castles of sand are standing Later as the sun sets low the children up and go They leave behind their mansions of glory filled with eyes of blue They leave behind a child’s dream perhaps a pail or two Moonlight now surrounds their Castles a prince and […]

Crossing As I watched her nimble feet through winters angry steady sleet And on her brow cold wind did beat she had her way and crossed the street And in her hair of modest gray which color did reflect the day She silenced what was hers to say and held a world in haste at […]

Echoes Echoes bring back words I’ve said repeating once again It’s wise to think before we speak reminding me of when I spoke without the thought of how my words could all but show What it was I felt inside and what was yours to know So I’ll repeat before they come to echo all […]

Empty Cups All shapes are waiting for a drop all sizes large and small Wanting so to hold and say a little for you all Empty Cups and each so different calling to our ears Do not fall and break now friend be careful through your years Do not mistake your emptiness for what one […]

Gone The purity of a child may be captured in a raindrop Falling pure Soon diminished and never again as clean January 2005

Hourglass My Love for you works like an Hourglass Every time you think it’s empty I just turn and love you more March - 1989

Introductions I saw you on your way today mixed within the crowd Silenced all my words to say sending thoughts aloud There they flew in route to you gliding over shoulders Thoughts that pressed upon my chest as if they had been boulders Perhaps I’ll gather courage making my own way Through the morning travelers […]

Kindness Do not doubt a simple truth that credits all we are However distant it may seem be it near or far A truth that speaks without a sound the core of life within Where every worthy moment known in silence does begin A truth that shows a kinder self alive in each to share […]

Late Again Running home as it grew dark amid the falling leaves My sister in her flowing skirt and I my turned up sleeves The cold air had returned again and chimneys let us know We’d cleared the woods at village end and had not far to go Our backdrop was an orange glow that […]

Listening Seashell to my waiting ear I listen for the ocean Someone told me it’s inside someone had the notion Can I really hear the waves tumbling to the shore Or is it just my innocence that has me hoping for I must admit that’s quite a bit to have inside a shell But not […]

Napping Lying still I close my eyes and trust in all your being Who I am is who you are and faith in me is seeing Yes you’ve made it all so easy asking only trust So small a price for all ones love asleep in most of us A nap is brief but shorter […]

Once How still the air one summer night when youth was yours and mine The lake was sitting quietly surrounded by the pine Not a ripple in its face a mirror to the sky Not to tamper with perfection neither questioned why Was it as if we somehow knew believing was the key Reflecting now […]

Rainbows Rainbows arc the open sky and speak their silent way Halos in an open field to bless another day Rainbows look upon our heads and seem to gently say I know you’ll always want to know just why I went away November 1997

Scarecrow Scarecrow on your wooden cross vigil through each year How absurd to think your grin is one a crow would fear Distinctive in your ragged clothes Sundays, Mondays best Does the farmer ever boast how well his Scarecrows dressed Like so many everyday you fail to see the loss Still so small a price […]

Solitude Solitude may warm the heart or haunt a guilty conscience A single thought, left alone March 2004

Stopping By When the Robin came at noon to view my quiet living room A different type of nest and kin I looked out as she looked in My windowpane made quite the perch for her brief two minute search Into my life and then my eyes a simple nod for our goodbyes My ceiling […]

Swings On the Swings they travel high then down to scrape their souls Children as you play today another year unfolds Blond hair grows to shoulder length and laces won’t stay tied Legs that kick up to the stars oh please just one more ride Sunlight through the playground fence will warm their growing hearts […]

The Elder of the Two It was on a clear bright morn, they walked along the shore Time and age responsible, for what it was each saw The younger gazed upon the point, where sea and sky took hands The Elder counting all the years, and all his unseen lands Sitting for a moment now, […]