I reach for gold in a billion stra
Tears long for my soul’s rapture a
Treading stronger waves I go—they
I reach for a sun’s unreachable hu
A spirit whispers, ‘STAND STI

You were once ashes of molten, bur
Now, you are star dust bursting th
Y-O-U are diamonds forged within
You are celestial fountainheads in
You are a soothing center, rooted

In mystic waves she floats amidst
From enchanting slumbers she arise
She travels from ocean to beach be
She is a rarity, like fallen stars
Her flauntless, spiraling headland

Sakura—a sacred wisp of cherry blo
She is dressed in sanguine grace;
Arrayed in dresses of spring tide
A Somei Yoshino—weeping, billow o
We trace our lives to her edges of

The death hills rolled in clay
Silvery, sheen and sunken stones
They seem to whisper amongst a dar
As night lights lushly soak earth’
There is history written upon the

She is a decorative spray of danci
A dulcet heart, dressed in petals
An immortal rose, suffused with wi
’Tis warm and winsome—musky with s
She is an emblem—nature's adorning

They are the banished and branded;
Castoff like stones plucked into w
Coalesced,
Fleeing
Indignantly hunted

Frost touches tree pines, as sun s
Near, are those fairy silver-sheen
Cold, this icy bend, illuminated b
Where lakes froze, and those spiri
All is genteel & kind—quiet as tho

These moments, I love, in tranqui
Ever a dream rising in life’s blis
Dreams may weigh heavy in our long
Such heaviness leaves us distraugh
Yet, there is no need for hopeless

Dawn of north—nature’s winter
Musings in Arctic sky
Oh, ye merry dancers sublime!
Ripping night’s black glass eye
Streaming upon equinoxes

A wolf follows me, his musky, onyx
He’s always there, with a simperin
I envision his bite venomous, like
He is my fear trapped within, my d
His venom is the poison of thought

'Tis garden dusk embellishing a wh
She is like red roses, queenly amo
As fairies kiss her petals—she wel
Her thorns distance those who woul
Her red emboldens with Autumn’s p