What Crosses My Mind

  • Feeling The Rains

    He didn’t have to look outside today to feel the sunshine quickly step away. We sense the energy, a rainy day would bring our sorrows into light of day. Soft in a cleansing wash would now the fray of a conscience in pain, solemn display. Oh to know the special nature such lay ahead in…

  • when the words don’t matter

    Sitting by the shoreline, the water fairly calm, a sharp breeze enough to suggest only the time of year.   watching seagulls swift past the eery history of the mast wondering just when waters would ever tell me a secret.   I could listen for hours while the sun began to dance along soft waves…

  • Listening, As Bullfrogs Might

    Outside my window, The sky black in twilight, No breeze to offer an anxious Tear into a calm evening.   Except the bullfrogs near Must be a dozen at least A three sound utterance Shared by another nearby   Three times that’s all, Perhaps the pitch might change, Another again will chime in, They’ll all…

  • When A Child Dreams

    I would dream summers running through hemlock brush scratches naked calves the moment, lost in its mystique   When we were kids we were ushered out of the house play until you drop play until you drop   We didn’t mind being ushered out we were in our element children of summer   When I…

  • Whisper My Name

    To be heard By her magic symphony I am the audience She the mystery   Oh, to know the many Value of this body of mystique The waves lapping shoreline Only to be heard.   I wonder the soul She keeps in quiet harmony, The many lives, the sea men Leaving wives and children home…

  • Summer Daze Alone

    A familiar air, cloudless sky, Listen to the sounds of a backyard, tree trimmers, grass cutters, BBQ-ing neighbors, listen to the children with innocent screams nearby.   He would understand, their natural allegiance to the land around them being an open playground, his own did the same, decades earlier, on similar days, a cloudless sky,…

  • Elegance Revisited on a Summer Lawn

    Sweet summer sounds begin night’s revelry We gather newly, friends of every walk of life distant paths did create a journey that brings us here to this date. Scan sure across the lawn and see each new smile, response, laughter suggests we all knew one another in time, another place when life moved fast, our…

  • Winter Winds

    Cool air soaking in the forest quiet nearby we know it waits we realize our lives will need warmth, we are readily restored by a the sharp brace of winter winds makes us feel alive again. A society relies upon the changing seasons to market their lives, where else would we find ourselves planning for…

  • Whisper Autumn

    While skies begin a stretch of cooler winds body seeming to recognize limits each stepping stone, virtual time rescinds calculate further storm than time admits. ~ A child witness color – aging leaves headstrong emotions tacked upon crackles like a midnight fire sparks ember heaves slow to respond yet beauty sheds shackles. ~ Perhaps a…

  • Sigh, Autumn

    A heavy weight streams beyond a worried eye skin tease a glint of aftershock in sky, summer wind reveals the loss, Her hot ardor romantic wisp, now memories adore ~ When as a lad out the doors I could run passion a reminder of setting sun hours ahead an arctic ground would near then frozen…