Oh

Realize

Not making connections

Not perceiving

Until all has past

And the heart leaps at understanding

Maybe too late

Maybe just in time

the end

 

Endings and Beginnings

Every day something ends and something begins

Recommitments to duty, health, work

Respect the end, earn the beginning

Each ending a permission to begin

Projects begin in the middle of other projects on-going

School ends classes begin

Things end with nothing to replace

Your Love

 

The pink sky announcing the rising sun

Such is your love

The blazing light that warms the earth

Such is your love

The growing tree, strong and green

Such is your love

The clear, clean moon shining through the fog

Such is your love

Forever

You

You’re the secret stash of chocolate in the back of my file drawer

You’re the novel under my pillow

You’re the secret room in my mind I go to when I need space and quiet

You’re the muse that lives under my desk

You are love

lost

Today I got my license back

The sender said, “I’m kind.”

Enclosed inside the envelop

Was guilt supreme, sublime

“You’re very lucky, too, my Dear

That I was not a crook

I could have snagged identity

And left you in the brook”

But in my pocket are my keys

And license and a book

I wonder who’s this person on

The license that they took?

Everything

 Scientists don’t know everything

Cardinals don’t always pair off, but stay in families year after year

Woodpeckers don’t just eat bugs off trees, but lots to hang on the side of feeders, choosing the best the sparrows have to offer

Dogs are faithful, even when abandoned, even until death

Cats create self-sufficient communities, packs roaming individually in spring and fall, sharing knowledge of food sources, killing moles and leaving them, eating mice and robins, showing other cats the way, warning strangers and waiting for them to prove themselves worthy

Landscapes change yearly, strong trees die unexpectedly without reason, water creates its own paths even though paths have been made for it through much study, rocks move, trees are stronger than rock, rock is stronger than dirt, water trumps all

Nothing replaces daily observation

inside

Easter

Photo fail

Egg hunt wonder

Look how many

Bags of plenty

Good eats, specialties

Good talk, poke, and tease

Games and laughs and rewrapping our lives

Pictures only in my mind

Too in the moment to step out and capture

Family memories

Stored inside

Dance

 

If your son was a bull rider

Would you go watch him ride

If your daughter was a prostitute

Would you give her a place to hide

If your husband was unfaithful

Would you give him another chance

If your mom sold you for money

Would you take her to dance

What if I said I loved you

Dark

 

I turn out the light

And look out at the night

It’s Hard

 

When we tell ourselves we can’t

Our world gets smaller

As we do this over and over

The walls grow taller

And the doors bolt

We can still leave

We can still move the walls back

It will take work, but there will be joy

We don’t have a choice, t will only get harder

Down

 

A Good Man Down

Believed a lie

Went too far

Now he’ll die

Might be me

But God

The Painted Pig

Painted pig for Everly

Eats spare bills and loose change

Looks like a super hero’s side kick

Might fall and break, but I will fix it

Might gather dust and be forgotten, but I will still remember it

Then when it is found again, I hope it brings good memories

An answer to “I wonder where this came from?”