Ripple - with audio

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A planet cannot change orbit
Without affecting the solar system
Just as the expanding universe
Changes all matter, space and time
Even though the eye does not notice
Our thoughts and actions
Illusive in the flux of things
Create a ripple in the pool of reality
And thus change the world forever

A New Beginning - with audio

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A new beginning,
When one is finished
Takes faith
Continuing on
Requires Hope
Allowing the flower
To stand again
After the storm
Producing lasting fruit
That falls from the tree
Of Love

What Whispers The Wind - with audio

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What whispers the wind
To leaves that tremble
What says the rock
As waters fall

Beauty whispers the wind
Gushing, rushing, sparkling
Beauty, sounds the stone.

to E.S. - regards old friend

Passionate Intentions - with audio

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A good thought is a fair and noble flight
But a good action is virtue
Emotions not expressed in day to day life
Are often expressed in dreams
Don't hold back your emotions and
You will sleep better at night

Passion is most well expressed
When love for another is given action
Self love, on the other hand
Is only a dim reflection of this
Like the Sun and the moon
Both are necessary

Tiny Credo - with audio

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I am not smart
I am not fast
I am not best
At where I'm at

But I will trust
As well I must
In God Who watches
Over all of us.

To Love and Shine in The Eye of Life - with audio

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That despair and fear across the land
Between me and thee I would certainly extinguish
But my roar is like a baby’s cry
And my power to save,
Like the lame man in front of the temple
That animation may God speak
Get up and walk my loved one,
Get up and walk
O carry the young and old in Thy bosom
Now and eternally
On the face of the earth
And in the eyes searching
There are tears stored up for a day
When many a heart shall say
Goodbye for now beloved of mine
While mouthing words both divine
And also guttural passions
Against and with the hand that fashions
The vineyard’s cluster of grapes
Under the embrace of the sun
As we drink the nectar of flowers
And sit tasting the honeycomb
Upon a blanket spread about with cornucopia
Even there one may stumble and not endure
A bridge that may not be passed over
The end of which finds the soul of man
That speck of sand
Upon the mighty torrent of something deep
In the silence and shades of specters
To rise again or not,
Once more to love and shine in the eye of life

The Poet's Voice Is Reborn - with audio

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The verses do not speak
When the sun is dull and weak
Words have nothing to say
When the sky is cold and gray
The intellect flees again
Eyes overflow their dam
Swirling current in the belly
Heart pumping willi nilli
Calm rolls in after the storm
The poet's voice is reborn

How Love Begins - with audio

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A girl and I went diving under the clear blue sky
On a pond, set round by fields, of barley, wheat and rye

She found there a family of ducklings, their little feet paddling
While tiny toads hopped across our path, brown, slow and dawdling

Gulls and hawks flew overhead and scurried away the lizards
Children’s voices in the hills nearby were like the chirping of songbirds

Beetles crept with each step under vineyards high above
The girl took my hand and smiled at me as we walked along in love

The blossoms of many a sage were orange, and white and purple
We held each other closely exchanging words and kisses special

Petals blue, yellow, and pink with the spicy scent of wild things
As we gazed into each other’s eyes reminded of how love begins.

Winter's End - with audio

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Stars fall from frozen fingers reach
Pierced by beams of golden sunlight's keep

All souls who behold the sight
Wonder once again with great delight

At the Hand that shapes the seasons
So tide and life go through their cycles

As winter's gray head stops her struggle
To reflect the purest white o'er another

Shedding tears that yield the earth her need
Bringing joy and green and nourishment to each and every seed

Time - with audio

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TIME

Every one heard the shot

They started off the block

The clock struck 12

They reached the end

No time anymore since it stopped

 

Wade, swim, float, sink and drown

In the sea of time and its many a storm

Were it not for the hand reaching down

From beyond that which can be fathomed

From beyond that which can be known

Yet the times of pain and pleasure

Beget joy and sorrows in good measure

No escape but death in the labor, fear or treasure

Sad, the journey traveled away from those we love

Paradoxically, it brings reunion with loved ones gone above

But sight is feeble and cannot see beyond

The toil and happiness of life and home

Time marches onward like some god soldier

Ushers life along, makes one wiser or bolder

To the frontline where work and day are finished

The structure once vacant is then demolished

Youth is not a capricious or thoughtless gift

It but helps the traveler be ready and equipped

For revelry and progeny and days of endless sun

Reflecting not upon the arduous task that they've begun

Blithely carrying the crushing weight of every year and hour

But time cannot put out the spirit’s brightly burning flower

Rather it is history that will be undone eventually

By something reflected in each soul called eternity

Herein this story we must now make an end

But conversely, let us tell everyone how it will begin

In this verse is a chronology, the reader to remind

It speaks of life’s predicament, dressed up in nursery rhyme

Of life and death and happiness, and work under the sun,

The rising unto heaven, so you'd better have some fun

For the great cosmos will one day have run out all time

Therein to announce a newly begun paradigm