****** upon the boundless plain
Locked in hope and searchless claim
We gather at this open court
Becoming just what we had hoped
Helped along with needy hands
Pushed from behind with wilder claims
We look for compassion and find it not
The clock has slipped and fallen
No deadline now to make it's name
We ****** along in silent pain
Knowing that our path was clear
Shaming all who cast us fear
When out of the light there rode
A sixpence horse with rider
Who staked his faith upon your grace
Pounding flag into the soil
And rared his steed upon your door
Proclaimed as if there were no more
While all the while we worried so
Was this the path to happenstance
Or was this right what we have done
To take our sabers into the sun
Clearing all who would be King
Finding not what we inflame
Somewhere close there senses death
In the mist there pleases pets
You make all this in memories time
For all is lost if we're so kind
In the end the road is clear
Another journey close to thee
Be careful what you wish to see.
Oct 5, 2016
Oct 5, 2016 at 9:08 PM UTC
Come to me on winter's nights
And bring your PowerPlays
Let me wine and dine your thoughts
Bring you yesterdays.
For I have been there where you live
A tribute to the game
I have fought and won and tied
Been wasted on the plains.
Scheduled flights and seen some come
Without as much as a clue
There once were days of might-have-beens
Some lies were seen as true.
So lay your head upon my neck
Be careful what you dream
For there are powers lurking there
Nothings as it seems.
And when you think you've got it won
Your mind is all too kind
It's me you didn't factor in
A vision of your mind.
Oct 1, 2016
Oct 1, 2016 at 4:36 PM UTC
Its raining in Arkansas tonight
I should be asleep
But I sit and think about you
And the more I travel
The more I know
Its not the roads and miles
And airports that separate us
Its something more
Something we haven’t seen
I’m not sure it can be
I can’t remember when I knew
Or the reason I suspected
I only know its there
Whatever it is
Lingering in my mind
A certain feeling
No real texture
Or anything I could fight
But its there
I stumble over the words
They won’t form
Sometimes I have it all figured out
But then I remember
You do love me
And I am lost again
Why are we apart?
What’s the reason again?
Its something I haven’t seen
Its time and space and usefulness
Its in your mind and you don’t know
I hope we find it soon
And I have a remedy
For I am alone and far from home
I have brought you here
But you don’t know
Or do you?
Oct 1, 2016
Oct 1, 2016 at 4:35 PM UTC
So very high upon our flight
We bend to touch the ground to see
If we are true or fading out
And then we see each others' light.
Its said our eyes are windows now
Which lead us to our final thoughts
And tell strangers who look our way
A secret which is hiding there.
We've seen the summers' winds at play
And midnight's cold and solitude
But still we look within ourselves
For the true and lasting trust in us.
Those who wish our flame would die
And keep us at our usefulness
Can't buy the outcome with their deeds
Or carry all our inward needs.
So when you think it's all at odds
And when your mind would rather say
That we are not a perfect match
Remember that we came this way.
We are here so far from that
Which brought us to this blissfulness
And all I have or ever thought
Was wasted on the journey here.
To be reborn and starting out
With all my fears and love intact
Is what I've seen so long so hard
To come to where I've longed to be.
I won't look back and see the dawn
'Cause you don't need to know its there
How could we lose our way from here
We've got each other through the years.
Oct 1, 2016
Oct 1, 2016 at 4:31 PM UTC
Beyond a dark a dreary world
Outside of right and wrong
There lives a girl with melting smiles
And a heart of windswept song.
Nestled in that shadowed past
Burned within my mind
I guard her castled memory
And lose my place in time.
We shared the winter's silver sky
And dreamed of warmer days
To watch each other endlessly
When friend was just a phrase.
Recalling all those simple ways
With all our love intact
Somehow I know it does me harm
To keep on looking back.
But the pain is never ending
And I know it can't be long
'Til I share those melting smiles
And a heart of windswept song.
Oct 1, 2016
Oct 1, 2016 at 4:28 PM UTC
Daisies are funny little things
When looked upon at first
Opening up its many arms
To brighten up your day.
No clue to find their secret
Of shining without light
They stand against the world
Yet sway to calls of breezes.
While lying next to one
They peep into your mind
As though to say I’m free
Enjoying every movement.
Recalling why I noticed
Daisy’s secret world
Brings back times of joy.
While strolling with my love
I bent down to pick one
She said no without emotion
And explained their world to me.
And though she’s gone – I remember
For in the fields I’m careful
Of where I step or lay…….
Oct 1, 2016
Oct 1, 2016 at 4:25 PM UTC
I have turned the pages now
Your face has faded and it's clear
The love we had has wilted dry
But it was here we said goodbye
And knew we had our future poured
Beside a locked and bolted door
It was, you see, what’s meant to be
But who decides these things for me?
I think of how we traveled here
We nursed each other out of fear
And forgot what had led us there
Because we never understood
That all the world won't help us now
They never cared which road we took
Some clouds we made with others' help
Have parted us from sight and yet
We feel each other day to day
And wonder if we are so right
That we have blocked the pathway's light
Which leads to what we always wanted
With gates we used to fill with flowers
They need our nourishment its true
We have left them there without a clue
Is it too late to save them now?
I think of you on distant streets
Wondering if your path is sweet
I've hesitated far too long
To play again our favorite song
But then again your words ring true
Of how your plans did not come through
Knowing you so well I see
Your glow had not included me
For now while high above the world
Flying still away from you
I can think so clearly now
And see your shadow in my mind
But not your face it's faded out
Was that your plan or was it right
To miss you so and need your smile
You know it's sad, it's been awhile
But then again your plan is clear.
I've walked the docks in Frisco Bay
And been to Alkatraz and yet
That prison followed me as though
It said to me you need to know
The walls are not what binds you there
It's knowing that the wind somehow
That I have felt will somehow blow
And reach you face in candle glow
To cause the flame to flicker bright
I hope it gives you sight tonight
For I have sent it there you see
From deep within my soul to say
I am not a timeless whisper
There is a day when this will stop
And just become a memory
Without a shred of help from you
Our love will finally waste away.
Oct 1, 2016
Oct 1, 2016 at 4:23 PM UTC
Causes here and those we know
Sift right down through candle glow
And paint a picture true and clear
Of what we have to keep us here
For you are there and I am just
A keeper of your angle dust
Who wipes it clear and keeps it high
To bring back down when you are nigh
I search for you and I can't find
Your words to me within my mind
To comfort all those hidden fears
Brought forth amid my tireless ways
To seek you out and find the day
When all this stops and we can shine
Bring forth the flowers and the wine
And waste away on moonlit flights
To laugh about our autumn nights
When all the world seemed low you know
While we were lost with hearts a flow
Searching here and there for you
To stop this flight it can't be true
Yes we will laugh and tell the tale
Of when I almost thought we'd sailed
On that last voyage on which we failed
But alas we both would sing
And see what now the sun would bring
To settle back with distant songs
Which showed us where we both went wrong
For looking at your eyes I see
The very thought you have of me
Forever is a windswept song
That drives me here to tag along.
Oct 1, 2016
Oct 1, 2016 at 4:17 PM UTC
Sadness lengthens into night
And with it goes attention
To all the bends and pressures
Of sensitive emotions
Taking with it further thought
Suspending truth and light
It soothes the mind with calmness
Destroying it with memories
With businesslike precision
Recalling every warmth
Computerizing feelings
As though an everyday occurrence
We approach a curtain
Which sometimes falls and rises
Separating sections
Of people and surroundings
And like a catalogue of names
We research each part
Pondering what went wrong
Or why it didn't work
To come to a conclusion
Or so we'd like to think
On every single act
Until given second thought....
Oct 1, 2016
Oct 1, 2016 at 4:14 PM UTC
It's different now
I've hidden your pictures
Trangressed upon that road
We often talked about
When there came a day
One of us was gone
As unlikely as it seemed
And now is upon us
The word 'Us" seems to fade
As though a teardrop
Fell amd made it disappear
Reasons became dominent
Words failed to reach
Summer is here and yet
I am locked in winter's thoughts
Without a need to see the sun
Yet I must go on
And like the past that floats
There is room for you
In a corner of my heart
That reaches out
Consuming all that's me
Reminding me that
Life is fleeting
Purpose is just
Hearts are timeless spans
Upon which we invest our trust.
Oct 1, 2016
Oct 1, 2016 at 4:13 PM UTC