serenity comes
passing through your  starry gaze
green eyed serenade

from my lips your name
final gasp of air for you
with you my last wish

Being in the flow
Is making this life seem easy
As a cool afternoon breeze
In your hammock swing

Got a train ticket
Sat in back, facing the end
click clack, my eyes close

windows of my mind
open images of you
sweet recollection

below billowed clouds
grey cast shadows flash past
birches frantic waves

some left behind trail, long dried,
mountain green pools, empty salt, died
nothing alive, just ghostly white lines
leading to dead eyes

This little one is
My sweet yellow bird
With a butterfly heart

There’s more to this view, you know
Worlds yet to explore, besides the rear view
new horizons to cross for you,  with
Your view of the change in you to better
Change the view around you, it’s all in
How you view you in this big picture view

Those fines are not mine
they' re centuries old, ancient
who keeps track that long

I've been lost before
stumbling around hopeless
only pain lives there
now skirting the dark abyss
just peeking in now and then

looking in the past
to remind where not to go
keeps me grounded here
dancing around with you now
never to lose you again

dark clouds loom
promising bad news
not yet known

writing and wandering
don't recall the steps just taken
or even these words, just written

It's the small still voice of
a subtle breeze on the deep pool surface
that keeps a fanged lizard"s temper cool

Shucking silver tinted slippers
Reminds of my wife’s favorite ring
The one with the pearl inside

The way you look in the mirror
the nonchalant way you flip your hair
the head cocked and that little shoulder shrug
as if to say, I'll take it, and your content, to leave it
some things just never change,
that beauty mark only I see
the scars light can't observe
but I know where they hide
the twinkle of an emerald eye
as it shoots up to catch me just right
it winks at me and lets me know it's all ok
I forgive you, let's move on

your still in my dreams
tossing and turning to you
through the good or bad
nightmares, fantasies you hide
only living in my mind

lost connections
tethers dangle lonely
never losing hope

anticipation
still after these many years
infatuated

patches on my ripped jeans
jumping dirt bikes and fields of dreams
for our future big air fiends
I wish the same simple things

toiling for one’s self
needing not others praising
life in your control

thoughts drift back to you
catching hints of your perfume
as people pass through

The dust is quenched
Baby blue with silver skies now
Every storm passes on

faded skies return
slow their dreary procession
summer's funeral

If you give less then you get,that's self destruction
I you get what you give,that's mutually assured
You give it all, with hope of little return, the satisfaction
To be sure, that's the secret, love cured

close my eyes, the water roars nearby
swirls abound, glacier retreat on full display
this well too will dry as time coasts by

It’s a warriors heart
Bloodied, battered, and  bruised,
Branded, banded, and barred
But beating always beating

headstone silhouettes
moon drawn shadows stand alone
silent forever

The water rises on
the whims of a fickle moon
Drowning me in it's sorrow

still our silence
even lonely thoughts echo
words never spoken