All my yesterdays
I so freely gave away
Have changed my today
heart you
Midnight hadn’t struck
Oh praise!
What awakened me
First words on loving lips
The heart it seemed
Wished to wake up
And tell it out loud
The one thing it knows
Untold
All the invisible damage
Allowed
Can’t I too be broken and bruised
Cut and lying
About a beautiful bicycle crash
Red
I would give back the stars
The observer’s eyes
The galaxy’s bounty
My ev’ry step returned to me
And the Earth be flat
Than continue seeking welcome
Convinced there be an open door
Its false promise
The brazen hearth
While black wolves surround
Solemn Vow
Countless days and endless nights I will wait on my front porch swingless though I need it be with you in mind and goal in sight to learn the word you have to tell ‘fore I will lay me down to dream.
May 16, 2016: A Haiku
How is it so true
The whether doesn’t matter
That I need your touch
The blanks
To live in the dark shadows
At the soft end of the long, hard day
To lay in the calm
Of the exposed, rocky underside
To linger forever
Tho’ the shoulders beg for home sweet home
To learn, though blinded
To be found in the lost of it all
Mine
I will always never
Need to be askedYou
Wondering eyes
Serene skin
Soul on-point
Down-to-earth
Convicted of glory
Lovin’ the truth
Knows-who-I-am
Earnest genius
Preacher boy
Stoic sovereignessNeed to be asked
To invest in you
Half New
I saw me at midcentury
Wearing race car red
Was I alone
I do not know
A swing in my shortish skirt
A flip to my hair
And sparkly Mediterranean eyes
Who’d dare trudge down,
Head first
With me
To the mystical waters
Just for a blessing
Some rocks
And sandy feet
Someday Sunday
Northbound perhaps?
With the cold for your friend
Would that you’d walk
To the end of the Earth
And fall straight-away
For all that you’ve cost your heart
With the wrong kind of noise
Then the most silent voice
Could continue in peace
To champion somebody else
