(2009)
I wish I had the words to describ… the quiet of a sunrise, the softness of rain on my arms, the fascination of a child with he… the liquid silver of morning dew o…
Lay me down Beneath the forest floor Between holly and oak. Lay me down Where snow and rain
Rain has been falling for two days now, The dry soil finally quenched after the long, hot dry. Ditches, ponds and guts
The snow slipped in (we watched for it all day long) Like a secret lover slipping out o… All that we saw (when we finally s… Were the footprints showing where…
Thirty miles to the west, sleet an… thirty sleeps the bay, temperer of… While snow and ice chill the west,… up to our chins. Here by the ocean… Instead of the sound of waves grow…
Little puts a smile in my heart mo… it’s one that I have woken early t… on my early every-day drive to wor… of time. I look in the mirror and wonder at…
to be remembered by someone younge… people to be respected for who the… what they have. spring to last a few weeks longer. to always be thankful.
She asked me, “Poppa, What is love?” And I thought and then said “Love is what you need and want it… She thought some and said,
Dirty hands clasped in prayer, Dusty fingers raised to the sky, Pleading for the same blessing. It had been weeks since the last r… leaves folded upright keeping thei…
As the party lights dim, as the we… green of summer is forgotten in th… it’s here, it’s time for farewells… Autumn is the year’s last party.… of the party goers. They slip out…
I held the rose So long ago, Held it tight, too well, And still, the thorn lives Deep 'neath the skin,
From the sky They come– The geese fall to open-armed earth.
Winds swirl around me In their familiar way, A touch here, another there, They move me along. I’m like a leaf:
The blue of the sky Meets the green of the sea In the white of thousands of years… Frozen in a two-sided mirror of ti… You look back to see the past reve…
When you look at the moon I see your smile. When you speak to the moon, I hear your whispers. When you cry within the moon’s sig…