Beauty
Walked With Me
Held my hand
For I was lonely

Without want
Beauty
Rested in my contemplation
Reaching within me

Beauty
Deeply
She touched me
She knew life's tragedy

My cheek she kissed
And disappeared in the mist
For Beauty knew
She could not stay with me

The fly
And I
Will die
Only humans
Wonder why

Consciousness
The screen door universe
I filter through
But will the fly
And I

Converse?

Sunday night
Alamo city
I walk along ancient
Architecture of passion and fiesta

White fire
Feather light crescent
Below moons eye patch

Can I share my peace with Anyone?

Aztecan totem poles
Mexican heroes
Sacred hearts still beat to
Creations drums

Hypnotized to a mosaic pond
Living things in the water
One side struggles
The other is calm

Unity with division
Humanities reflection
I see myself

Can I share my peace with Anyone

I hold my friends hand
A guitar case handle
Pull her out and begin to
Play

Music and city circulate like
One blood
While I sit still

Like a patient swimmer
The city
Breathes one note at a time
Rises to breathe again

I return to my room
The city has its music

Can I share my peace with Anyone?

Rain -

Cold heavy concrete
Seeps in my dreams
And grainy reality

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Then I walk outside
Publicly tie
Squishy shoes that sigh

The last leaves
Will rest with me
Make a December bed

The last leaves
Will feed me
With moisture beads

The last leaves
Will bless me
Wings to eternity

Where sky and roads
Meet
Everything is cold
White

And the huskies hearts
Beat
Ready to conquer
The epidemic

For the challenge
To bring the serum
Home
To Nome, Alaska

There's the long sled
And musher
With tempered whip
Ready

Where doctor
And nurses wait
Patiently -
There cannot be delays

The Huskies hearts
Beat
As in a race
Running briskly

They sense a mission
To erase
Deadly diphtheria
Disease

Snowbird
Without words
Poetry unfurled

By wings
Flitting
From tree to tree

I observe
Snowbird
Without words