The Autumn sky is vast
there is no end
The swallows fly exultant
at Summers end

I track the endless sands
I long for peace
The innocence of birds
brings no release

Of meaning I have none
Nor harmony
Yet here I am again
This bitter sea

My heart was shattered
Broken glass
Shards of ice
Love’s a lie
and lies the word
I saw you with her
The blonde,the girl

But as you know
I’m bitter- sweet
I’ll cut the clothes
You keep so neat

I’ll order pizzas everyday
and strippergrams
I’ll make you pay

I hope you suffer
I hope you’re beat
One thing I know-
Revenge is sweet

Blue mountain
Summer dreams
have led me to your summit
I can breathe here
I am alone
I am at one
with your soft mists
and rugged trails
The meadows
breathe of peace
and Summer warmth
releasing perfume
of wild thyme
of honeyed air
of rosemary
and lemon thyme
I would stay here
with the pines
and lonely stars
Yet I descend
for you hold me
to the world

The icy stars
stare coldly down
The waning moon
removed
from all I am

Pale deceiver
Barren rock
in endless sky
While down below
We live
and love,then die

Winter lace
adorns the windowpanes
Crisp white snow
crunches underfoot
a trail of crimson drops
lead to the winter woods

Dreamer
darkness steals your face
I’m lost to you
who roam in palaces
of winter jasmine
and lie with sirens
in beds of silk and gold

Have you danced with the leaves
in Autumn
Have you made angels in the snow
Have you welcomed the Spring
with an anthem
Have you longed for Summer to come
In each season is a lesson
of life and love and hope
of joy and inspiration
in the fairground of the world

You are a bright and burning sun
within my lonely sky
You are a moon in darkness
a slice of apple pie
You’re birdsong in the winter
a flight within a dream
a fresh new book
a bunch of flowers
a bucket of icecream

Jewel moon
adorn me
Night- time
enchanting

Sunlight
embrace me
Light
in the morning

Rainfall
bestow me
with natures blessing

I am the winds child
I am a gypsy

Inside the flower
the nectar is sweet
The bee is enchanted
her reverie deep

She lights on the roses
and hums her delight
The bee is so busy
She’s beautiful bright

When you taste your honey
Remember the bee
Remember the flowers
ecstatic and free

When rain falls
I think of you
When sun shines
I miss you
When snow falls
I know
that I must let you go

Like a drop of milk
on a black cats whisker
the moon is lost
in the endless night
She follows paths
invisible
and longs to
see the light
But the moon is a lady
whose destiny is dark
She’ll never see the sunlight
or hear the merry lark
Sometime she is silver
Sometimes she is gold
She is a jewel invisible
above the lonely world

My love you’re gone forever
I see you where you’re not
I sense you in the shadows
In each familiar spot
Your scent imbues my pillow
with the memory of one night
when all the world stood still
You were my love,my light
Now you are a memory
A half forgotten truth
That love is ever living
and my love is the proof

Love was lost
like a diamond ring
left on the beach
love discarded
like a half- eaten
rotten peach
I wish you were awake
and not asleep
My wishes are like ships
lost in the deep

When you were gone
we planted a young tree
in memory
and twenty years later
from that day
I wonder
how you have grown
Are you a gentle birch
sighing in the breeze
or an apple bearing maiden
or a larch with golden leaves
Maybe you are a willow
with trailing veils and skirts
a fragrant pine
or a somber elm or an ash
with spinning keys
I will return
I’ll come alone
and sit within your shade
A tree it is eternal
A poem
not a grave

Moon shining brightly
Moon light my way
I am between shadows
The horizon is grey

Then as I grow weary
a rose blooms in the sky
The birds sound so joyful
I no longer ask— why?

The world felt so empty
and charity cold
But this day brings me hope
I no longer feel old

The golden fawn
pauses to drink
A lazy dragon fly arrives
importantly
he ducks and dives
The drowsy birds
list in the sky
They seek the shadows
So do I
I live in darkness
without the sun
A moon concealed
Oblivion

I pull the curtains close
No crack of light
to penetrate the dark
the endless night

Love is a light
you say
But I in darkness stay
in your embrace

A scent bourne on the breeze
Sweet rose,anemones,
Winter jasmine blooms
by the sweet peas

A garden is a poem
of scented words
of butterflies and bees
and little birds

Green to gold
Gold to white
Light to dusk
Day to night
Rise again
in verdant green
to life and love
and cold icecream

Wherever you go
I am your shadow
I am
your half forgotten dream
your suppressed sorrow

I am a promise broken
a hidden room
in which you keep
dark memories
and evened scores

I follow you
My friend in darkness
I am your shadow

I’m lost under these endless skies
and I follow the star path home
to a distant planet
that was my childhood home
Where panthers sing their silent songs
under the Autumn moon
and women weave a net of poems
to catch and drag you down
Where dolphins hold great mysteries
in coral and in pearl
Where gentle fae wish upon stars
for all the universe
The sea holds endless treasure
and jellyfish fiercely guard
Starfish shine to light your way
fireflies shine like stars
I would walk the star path
unto my distant home
So take my hand and walk with me
So I don’t walk alone

Summer’s gone
I’d only just begun
to feel so free
The earth of life
of light
Just you and me
moving,dancing
by the sea
where I found shells
murmuring
their mystery
Hopeful still
I search the sky
and see a lone white dove
circling eternally

I came from the sea
To the sea I return
The cool of the ocean
The tide on the turn

My life is the ocean
The depths and the storms
The flotsam and jetsam
The widow that mourns

Eternal the ocean
The salt and the sand
Her wondrous creations
can’t be found
on dry land

I am the wind
The merest breath
on the baby’s cheek
as she sleeps
her evening sleep

I am
the bracing wind
that reddens cheeks
and teases skittish cats

I am the gust
that startles birds
to quarrel
in their trees

I am the gale
that wrecks the ship
The hurricane that
shatters worlds

Slave girl unchained yesterday
sings an unchained melody
Freedom tastes so honey sweet
Dancers rock the drumming beat

She is breathing freedoms air
Free from shackles
Free from fear
Far above her,flying free,
leaves whirl in Autumns ecstacy

A fallen woman
A jewel upon the
somber earth
Glows like a
beacon in darkness
Illuminates the truth
That all things change
They rise,then fade
This small leaf
is the proof
I bend down
I pick you up
I’ll hold you
to my heart
This tender leaf
is Autumns gold
and Winters loving heart

The Autumn is Winters herald
Her banners red and gold
The Autumn is a dancer
With secrets deep,untold
The Autumn is a dreamer
Who dreams a golden world
The Autumn is a mourner
wrapped in mist and haze
The Autumn is a maiden
gilded with golden rays
The Autumn is a gatherer
of dreams and poems and news

When Autumn meets with Winter
the leaves will turn to dust
Into black earth they disappear
their golden fire lost

A gentle snow blankets the world
and diamonds frost the trees
She is a dream invisible
a whisper on the breeze

Summer heat within
Hot coals igniting
I see you touch
her hand
you know I’m watching
You want me to let go
For I am burning
For you are ice and bone
and Winter snow