Ancient steps worm smooth
Thousands of feet stepping softly
Lives passed on these ancient stones
Love lost and the stories told, walking
Stumbling on the always uneven ledge
timeless whispers in the rocky crags
Notes slipped inside secret cracks
Wishes, dreams, hopes, dashed on
Eroding facade if human history
Lost on hard rocks showing no emotion
At the stories told, lost and never heard again
Rock is hard memories of ghostly laborers
Who placed the stones that sealed our words inside

it's always been this
my first glance to our last kiss
all eternal bliss
it's always been you, mistress
hearts eternal happiness

In the midst of drought
Nothings right, no one but us
Your touch primes my soul

eyes just overflowed
caught an unsuspecting moment
of beauty unobserved

silence
amidst clatter
a gift

hard knocker
ocean floor bully
mantis shrimp

crawling from the weeds
fanged mouth ajar, eyes never blink
laid out, his evil deeds

Young hunger yearning
New growth burns it's winter suit
With a bang, I awake

highest prices paid
fully acknowledged defeat
out from the ashes
shaking off past ***** soot
rising, collecting just dues

If the next best thing
always your shiny new thing
Glad I'm an old thing

flapjack breakfast love
buttered up and sticky sweet
I licked that plate clean

yikes venezuela
double yikes for red china
lost their human's rights

corrupt governments
pillaging their own people
with just signs to fight

they let it happen
trusting in greedy humans
no one else to blame

lessons never learned
our founding fathers teachings
history repeats

I'm alone, it's night
I'm cold, it's clear, the stars watch
As I build a fire

Flat top mountain hike
High above blue sky slowly rolls by
Beauty splayed before my eyes

The flower bursts forth
Displaying gold lined petals
Aromas invite

'save the trees!' they yelled
plastic billionaires lobbied
laughing all the way

New life put on pause
Crows been silent stalkers, not
carnival barkers
All critters take care, sensing
deaths desperate last culling

misunderstanding
stinging words twisted around
baby, i'm sorry

Going further now
Snow thawed, moose bones, not white, raw
Fresh feasting for some

In the spring I knew it all
As Summer was a ball before the Fall
Into Winter when I look to recall

wild hearted summer
sun, blazing down, waving heat
skinny dipping time

Honeysuckle sprinkles
White dots in a deep nights sky
As above so below

I exhale your name
Under my arms trembling
You breathing mine back

My muse has learned to change her frights
not in a material shift
                  but in her dreams
inside
I think it amazing
                                she shrugs it off
no big deal


but if she can change a dream?



                                                   could she change her mind?

At the heart of coal's soul
lay the diamonds colored rainbow
arching to fill other's empty hole.

taking shortcuts home
forgetting long day troubles
your smile driving hard
mindless ideas of me, you
letting your hair down tonight

fear binds
cripples minds
leaves you blind

I only gave you my heart
Thats sad enough
But you came for another sacred soul
Thats bad eenough
I couldn't give you that which is not mine
So I said enough
But you came a lurking anyway
You never had enough
Souls are eternal gifts from above
I just wanted enough

It’s fun watching my youngest bird molt
Charlie her cockatoo does it too
It’s so cute!

I can watch grass grow
Or cherry blossoms bloom
for eternity, when I know  your mine