falling rain again
puddles collecting curbside
hopscotching around

morning cup brewing
popping bacon in mom's pan
golden grits stewing
flipping through dad's Sunday rag
saying grace for all I've had

shimmer a while more
such travesty fading light
life among twilight

new life starts to grow
in sediment of old floods
no rain no rainbow

I wandered the grand abandoned halls
hearing echos of lavish lives once lived
joys once loud muted by distant pain
what grandeur lost to humbling time
their epic stories covered in dust

heard that so softly
worded, silently whispered
obeyed the warning
above screaming agony
forgive yourself to break free

yellow fades to brown
hinting winter's darker days
as northern lights dance

Afternoon sun pops through
Golden streams between gray shades
the spring sun prevails again

caught in the dusk
where life loses it's focus
between dark and light
shades of things converge
as the polestars emerge

tracks all ripped apart
where trains rolled and chugged across
taking us places
only kids dared dream, wild eyed
with smokestack clouds whooshing by

ocean noise crescendo
Seagulls chasing as water wanes
periwinkles dance

If forever is never
And I never stopped loving you
Then I love you forever

big great white swimming
carolina's outer banks
shark of privilege

***** getting this old
Kids ridiculing me, cause
I text with one finger

What do I believe and
why it annoys you so
Why do I believe and
what annoys you so

When will you believe and
Where should mine go for
Where you do believe is
When your roots will grow

Let's agree to live and let be
I will love you and you love me
Let me love my God
and we can all live in peace

I believe in the words of that man
I believe in the life of that man
I believe in the death of that man
I believe he is coming again

trampled under foot
left behind for dead, alone
one voice to guide me
one solid rock to lean on
found peace in eternal love

suicide spawn
spirits pass on ancient beds
brown bears feast

late sun still warming
milky glacial stream slips by
as twilight life goes

Cannot turn away
magical that way,  they lure
My imagination, awake

embers slowly burn
pulling me ever deeper
in seductive flames

Your mind says you can't and you so easily agree
Your heart retorts, we can, trust in me
Mind fires back, you fool, can't you see the impossibility
Your heart once proud and full succumbs to your own negativity
Defeated withdrawn cold and dark a surrendered heart for eternity

You said you liked me but you hated yourself
Then you said you loved me so I ran away
Then you fell in love with yourself again
And I came crawling back your way
What does that say?

early morns better
each letter, word clear crystal
my mind unfettered

I'd rather whiny like a horse
than die like a sheep

Aging moms frantic calls
The sun peeks in going by
The chair rocking soothes me

Angel dropped her sash
Pink, floating , engines roaring
The day, just starting

Magpies, black white blue
Tussling for a fry, brown ground
Foods still rare, I guess

lights to recall you
solemn flames dancing on whispers
scenes of you, linger
fires flicker as angels dance
candles lit in remembrance

People look into the dark
To see shades of death, I look
For night creatures breath
To prove I’m not afraid
And the darks not death
But life without light

Time speeding up, every second, faster
Barreling at break neck speed , recklessly
Unavoidably spiraling out of control

Steel Wheels Eighty Six
****’s head in a mushroom cloud
light dreams riding home