Le Guitar
Here I stand guitar in hand
Not lonely with my stringed friend
Weaving melodies that soothe
The soul and make the man
Feeling peaceful and sweetly grand
Like a good day at its end
When moon shine sets the mood
Soft light to slowly dine
Candle light, my love, red wine
Forever where you are
Me and my guitar
April 2 , 2006
Just
Let It Rest
Times we hold to our hearts
Are the very best
Many finishes and false starts
Will face the folly of time's test
Some times you have to walk away
And just let it rest
Fold the memories carefully
Tuck them safe and sound
Face the trials prayerfully
Thankful for what you've found
If you hit the ground just rebound
Don't lay where you fell
Get past the end and it will go well
April 10, 2006
More Flash Poems
Spring Day
A spring day
Seasoned with cool wind
Lost in time
Wishing I could send
A note or word
But it occurred
To me
You are about business
I see
If I could change this
I would squeeze more time
To watch sea spray
Hold your hand
This spring day
So that I could simply say
You grew up good let's play
April 24, 2006
This Rain
This rain cleans the air
It make lustrous greens
It clouds over this despair
It makes the way and means
To this cozy easy chair
Barefoot in these jeans
I'm content to sit and stair
At this rain that's falling out there
April 21, 2006
Pay Up
Wha' zup?
Pay up
The tab is due
Enough
It's rough
It's up to you
See scope
Have hope
Until you're through
Be friend
Love send
Right back to you
April 20, 2006
Moving On
Memories close to the heart
Imprinted on the brain
Reaching endings and a start
Yet attachment will remain
Love and longing are not gone
And you ask yourself how
How will you move on
Because it is over now
But does love ever end
Transition: lover to friend
Facing a brand new dawn
Praying for a way to move on
Move on
Move on
April 17, 2006
Just Let It Rest
Times we hold to our hearts
Are the very best
Many finishes and false starts
Will face the folly of time's test
Some times you have to walk away
And just let it rest
Fold the memories carefully
Tuck them safe and sound
Face the trials prayerfully
Thankful for what you've found
If you hit the ground just rebound
Don't lay where you fell
Get past the end and it will go well
April 10, 2006
The Last To Know
Everyone heard the tale but you
It's an old story you can't misconstrue
Having heard I still wonder if it's true
Nothing lasts forever is all that it proves
That and someone else has bigger sorrows
One who cannot pay for what he borrows
One who has run out of his tomorrows
He may not even be able to sing the blues
I look into the mirror and ask it will it show
Why is it that I seem to be the very last to know
Some one always has it better and some one worse
There are times when all you need
Is to to hear a happy verse
April 5, 2006
The Fool
Schools say there is a way
Every day a fool's day
Wishing for a warm veranda
Steeped in steely propaganda
Feeling like an alien thing
Drunken dreadful sodden king
Jester there behind the curtain
Pig fat friends that's for certain
Tenfold the cost of their construction
They are mad with mass distruction
Sing a jingle then ring a bell
Here they find their space in hell
If in fact there's such a place
Face them toward then leave
No forlorn smile on weathered face
No widow left to grieve
So very far from comfort and from cool
So sits the jester and the fool
April 1 , 2006
Forward Still
It seems like time has a will
To hold me here in this place
Even though I've had my fill
My plans seem to self erase
There doesn't seem to be a pill
Or a drink that can encase
Dreams I have that hate the chill
I long for a warm embrace
The ocean just beyond the sill
Summer breeze candle light and lace
Strain the reins so forward still
Break free to run the race
March 28, 2006
Butt High
Butt high legs straight
Wants to walk, can't wait
Fast and forward his gait
When he gets the swing
Coordinated crawling
Frustrated squalling
Lost freedom calling
Time for us to sing
Soon there'll be a bike
And the mountains and a hike
Maybe an open mic
Whatever is his thing
Love will do what love must do
We're here and we'll take care of you
Move forward toward your fate
With butt high, legs straight
March 27, 2006
I Don't Know If I Am Up For This
I don't know if I am up for this how about
you?
When you add up all we've seen and heard how much of it is true?
If the truth is always the truth is a lie always a lie?
People in authority seem to have a standard that passes that standard
by
Pancakes falling freeing travel at a free fall rate
When they are thrown down they face another fate
I could sit and pray and ponder this and more for hours
What really happened in the tale of the two towers.
Chani's Birthday
The wonder of you
The newness of you
The you-ness of you
Are all apart of the treasure
You are to my soul
Would that we could take our leisure
And go for a stroll
Walk on the beach
Like we did today
There is much to learn and teach
And so very much to say
Your life is a canvass
Of rainbow hues
Who would plan this
You are my good news
I love you every day
Happy happy happy birthday
The one thing that makes me unblue
Is having one on one time
Just me and you
March 23, 2006
Flew Flu
Headaches like ocean spray
Seashell roar
Scorching day
What's this for
Foul frothing flu
Lays down me and you
Makes the baby cry and cry
It is best when
it says good-bye
Drink your fluid to make it through
You'll feel better when the flew flu
Anywhere but here today
Flu just fly away
March 20, 2006
Otay (I used my song titles
in the lines)
Otay said one that walked away
Looking for a brighter day
The trouble with love is sorrow
So don't trade today for tomorrow
Or tomorrow for today
Love is kind then it ends
But forever let's stay friends
We do our best just you and me
We hoped so long for give us free
Where do we go, I wanna
Go to the Club Americana
Where can I find love I ask
When so many wear a mask
So much love until we're done
And you can't call 911
For you the cooing of a dove
Is such a far cry from love
I must walk away
You smiled and said "Otay"
March 16, 2006
Bloom
The tulips will come calling
soon
They herald in the spring in fine bloom
Rows and rows below the hills
The tulips and the daffodils
The color spills onto the ground
Another season rolls around
We will sing a springtime tune
While watching tulips bloom
March 15, 2006
Heavy Sighs
Softly across puffy pillows
Heavy sigh creeps
Like wind in the willows
Infant wonder sleeps
In quiet slumber
I look on from under
A grown up burden
On which I'd draw the curtain
Take in the moment for certain
With both my heart and with my eyes
And feel the love abound in heavy signs
March 14, 2006
Circles
Fogged in under clear skies
Asleep awake I realize
I'm sailing troubled seas
So let it out and keep it in
Come full circle once again
Finding comfort finding peace
In unspoken words and rhymes
In the tokens of the times
Round and round without end
Seamless circles spin and spin
And spin
March 12, 2006
Better
Whether former or later
Mind you it does matter
Add better to the batter
Better best be Good
Life gives you a scolding
Troubles tear unfolding
So much to be holding
Let it go you should
Be on best behavior
Hold out for a savior
As common as xavier
Cast off knock on wood
Toll the world keeps turning
Releasing with a burning
Let this constant yearning
Be free flowing like it should
March 11, 2006
Seasons
Some seasons are sophisticated
Seamless passing not complicated
We realize why we waited
For a just or unjust reward
Elated by emancipation
Forever free from frustration
It seems the joyous consternation
Will last forever more
Lunar phases come and go
Seasons change as we all know
The good, sad, happy, bad
Are just the ebb and flow
Of the life that we have had
High or low what are the reasons
It is just the passing of the seasons
March 9, 2006
The Truth
The truth
is just the truth
It is the same forever
In our old age and our youth
True is true bad or better
Find the truth or try
Tell the truth even if you die
Perhaps dying is the beginning
Not the last and final inning
A single moment will be the score
Adding up a life there is this
And nothing more
March 8, 2006
Gathering
Friends make the days seem warmer
Though the winter clings not be former
But to be present still
Waking us with its cold chill
Causing teeth to chatter
But still it doesn't matter
When we warmly gather
Sharing creature comforts, time,
Laughter, food and fine wine
We wait for winter to disappear
Happily because it's warm in here
March 5, 2006
Wake up
The alarm sounds and it's time to rise
Another day awaits our weary eyes
Wander to work and to little surprise
As we set out to do it all once again
The bell rings and it's time to depart
Packing and walking to homeward we start
To the comfort and care that's good for the heart
We have run the race to the end
For love,or a son or daughter or friend
Each of us wakes up and takes on the course
It is part of it all as we feel our life force
Wake up and look for a chance to be giving
For such is the reason why we're all living
March 3, 2006
Rise Up
What great things can come from hard times
Those who find life lifting them to low places
Where they have to make a stand to survive
See what seemed a disaster caused bell chimes
And tears turned to smiles on the very faces
Of those who questioned if they should be alive
A prisoner forsaken and left alone
Then freed and taken returned home
Slammed. Lifted. Found. Drifted. Fell. Trod.
Rise up and look up and look out and look in
Life goes better with God again and again
March 1, 2006