Some just, well, must obsess
over the issues from the past
Combing over details to the last
Wishing things had been different
If they had done this with more intent
Did that this way not that, hell bent
Opening and closing this drama, trying
Again and again, crying and dying again
Every single time and again, Time better spent
On what to learn and apply Is what’s meant
Past proves present unless you love malcontent
Let the  past go. It’s so simple yet
Not many can do it takes practice
Forgiveness, redemption, commitment

Ducks nesting, hatch looms
Eagles straighten, fox listen, still
the reaper sharpens

wife wonderful life
nights ringed fire growing higher
campsite reflections
every flicker different
lighting my eternal flame

my mind's eye recalls
that time so easy to see
where I first saw you
looking back to where I gazed
your eyes glancing back at me

autumn rain
teases
of falling snow

that angel oak looks easier to climb now
hanging over that old street of my youth
now walking a proper shady oak lane

spring mess, thawing trash
burgers fries, some piggys dumped
still inside their bags
******, funny thing observed,
magpies adore those piggys
.
.
.
now, where's a goat?

I'll take this burden
You've already bore enough with
those thin spindly legs
Not built for such heavy loads
rest now, your loving works done

felted spring antlers
steel stuffed scabbards of war
lethal beauty

From the world, I’ve come
Bleeding, in need of your care
Tend my wounds, cure me

Ever witnessed true elegance
true grace, lying sleeping in human form
A  moment before she sees first rays of light

My bride smirks within
thinking, she loves, when I write,
three line harlequins

For surely she is a reaper of  any man's ego
some innocence lost some deserving it so
She stripping their hearts of their selflish show
She collects them as trophies in a case aglow
Reminding her of how many are left to go
Refining the craft of destroying their whole
Another notch in her unforgiving bow
Men unleashed this vengeful black crow
To punish themselves for ruining women's soul

Protect the less powerful the
women the young the old
Let her ripper rip and the reaper sow
all of those evil men souls

Love is getting strapped
on Wile Coyote's back
atop an acme
hand made rocket perfect for
maximum chaos in seconds

Simple Simon says
you don't like what you dream on
change what you think on
for it is what your thinking
determines what your dreaming

Nothing to discuss
my words are never enough
I, you, us means love

set your eyes on the sun, alone
when I'm dead and gone
You will find me there looking on

Beauty lies within
He says to his lonely self
As he cocoons in

MY heart skips along
as a water bug might
when a whisper of you
comes skipping along.

I don't trust my brain to tell me the truth.
He is a known deceiver a stone cold liar
heck he even lies to himself.  
Then I realized I knew other people
Who's hearts were good and true and fair
Follow your heart, I  heard, I swear,
somewhere
But nowhere did I hear
listen there,  in you heart , you hear
So I did and do and it's been
The smartest thing this ******* could ever do

Streaks of white part the hills
a misty sun struggles to shine through
Alaska chooses to hit the snooze

You retreat and contract
before we  can start
For a love of this kind is
an scary form of art
How to make room well
that is the perplexing part
When you reside in an
ever constricting heart

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

Low flying full clouds
Heavy down filled layered
Snuggled in safe warm

carats of young life
old memories, new facets
same golden setting

today I straighten
walk tall, no self doubt, upright
maybe tomorrow

perfect ten?
not even a prime
why not five?

Something heard a million times
something said a million in one
Just something never said that way

The always knowing
Right where you take your stand
Under any condition no matter what
Situation you've faced it's your constant
Trust in your own convictions that I lean on.

You shattered us like
a camels back, the bow, broke
Pull yourself together

Baby bouncing  joy
rascal puppy takes my shoe
Love at every turn

I hear the whisper of
summer songs  birds sing
blowing in my ear

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

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