A gentle push and a love guiding
You can endure all of life's pain and sorrow
With love, being strong, is easy

hearing you breathing
lays my restless mind at peace
soothing me asleep

A quiet moment receiving this gift
lighting a rose scented candle in remembrance
the breeze that fanned the tiny flame
The warmth let me know you are still here
still warm from that short flickered fire of tears

tumbleweeds tumble
down abandoned city streets
dust their companion

pluff mud in my nails
shrimp shells, crab claws, in the pail
Grandma Lolly's cookin'
sunday grub, us four cousins
pulling nets in tidal marshes

steady hues, shifting
blues surging, nature pulling
mans castles back down

peaking in wonder
your silk slip falls to the floor
as loves waiting ends

nothing really owned
only your spirit inside
love generously

plunged head over heels
down your gently sloped nature
for you i did fall

I saw that blood in the sky
Swollen burning after party eye
Veins of crimson wells ran dry
Swelling waters of a red tide
Coursing thru my fragile mind

Denim and plaid angel
beautiful bad *** in Levi Strauss
she's amazing, I'm lucky

Green light romance
Flirting seductively sultry thru the night
Enchanted I reach for you

midnight sun arrives
slowly lunar smiles recede
starry nights retire

These words I write are
reflections on paper

Reflections of loss
Reflections of gain

No matter the cost
No matter the pain

These words I write are
reflections of life

Reflections of fear
Reflections of you

No matter how dear
no matter your view

These words I write will
reflect my life on paper and
my life lived for you

this path behind me
imperfect by nature
as the aging man
who traversed it
still points true
as wisdom in steps

that moment alone
was worth the thousand goodbyes
I take everywhere

Three scars cross my heart
Three strikes to show we tried
Three exes and your out

My intentions were as a gentle breeze
Whisking away your doubts as the stormy
tempest slowly builds to ******

just rock me my love
like my Lolly used to do
on her front porch swing

Brown white hell falling
Eyes sharp, an arrow point, Flash!
death from razor talons

pictures in my mind
happy times captured and framed
time lapsing memory

southern breeze blows
me back, youthful memories,
Innocent times,
winds threaded with wild childhood
dreaming on clouds passing by

you swirling eyes, green designs
shatters my resolve, leaves me blind
I surrender to  your emerald gaze

early autumn hint
faintest cool northerly breeze
whispered he's coming

ignorance is bliss
hard to miss baskets of gold
sprinkled around you
your blindness, tunnel vision
swiping right, as flowers die

calm waters
quietly whispered
dreadful silence

she's  the only one
trusted to handle with care
her hands my heart beats

Lost in mindless drift
rudderless ship so to speak
not water bound, thoughts
turn to my anchor point end
where my mind last set on you

Truth doesn't become so because you think it is so.....
...... just as it does not become so because your friend said it be so.

living on cloud eight
one less than higher demand nine
this view is just fine

Glaciers glare melts darkened snow
as the sun dries the remnant pools
leaving dust to the wind

greyness among
endless grey
neither light dark
between
good bad
taking leaving
nothing coming
everything gone
slack tide of life
missing the flow

plucking grapes for me
basking in deep pools waiting
patience, snorting, snout ajar
no young cub pretenders yet
another silver missile caught

Tomorrow seems a dream
Lost in your forever embrace
My pumpkin awaits

Snow leopard tail high wire act
Walking the tight rope of
Rock slide down to valley floor below

my light leading sways
paths behind show confusion
ahead wide open

be aware
vampires are draining
blood sweat tears

bare blue moon
naked upon earth
cold alone

A cold dark stroll under
a wild aurora glow
stopping cliffside as
the whales mighty
fountains flow bursting
the surface in a
high tech Vegas show
Climbing the ridge to spy
a migrant herd below
All the while stealthly
Stalking my very own soul

empty faces
unfamiliar gazes
sheep grazers
pointed lasers
etching razors
on bleeding skin

Forest floor hunting
Elusive gold sustenance
No dinner tonight

wide rolling waters
carry my wretchedness home
wash these fresh wounds clean

infinite tears fall
swollen eyes stream broken dreams
lions lap their pools

Chance was human
He acts just like a *******
bad manners and all