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

 

This Spring Day Clear - with audio

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Springtime is here
With wishes dear

Those of love
Those of lust
A treasure trove
to now entrust

Birds in the trees
Blossoms on the breeze

A tear in the eye
An ache in the heart
A deep drawn sigh
A spirit's fire to start

On the face is cool May air
A burst of sun in golden hair

In the hand
Of the Creator
Seas and sand
Poles to equator

Far and near, Far and near
So very near
This Spring day clear

The Being Lifted Up Doth Soar - with audio

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Once again above the cotton
Rode the bronco till it calmed

Fears of wreckage now forgotten
Peace arrived here now entombed

Sun is there so brightly lining
All the horizon now can offer

Fueled by wind and fire climbing
The spirit released can no more suffer

Gliding with the winged birds
Shall the mouth dare to speak

Of that which lives beyond our words
Touching upon the highest peak

In azure and white, the hushed roar
Blazing journey through the heavens

Now the being lifted up doth soar
Grateful for all the Eternal One hath given