Category Archives: Reflections

After the owls go silent, my father risesto greet dawn’s pied pigeons.The early Saturday morning begshim to join shield and blade,sharpened like a rapier. Arms outstretched like Christ’s cross,to be armored for backyard battle, he preparesto transform wood and stone to his mind’seye. With a soft power that belies senescence,he warmly greets a red cardinalContinue reading “Carpenter Knight”

The seats of bikes both gather dust,Toys and dolls their hair once trussed,Colored chalk from sidewalks clean,The thief of time for all that’s been, Youthful buds soon bloomed, now gone,Where once your prints and kiss belonged,From scattered dreams your shapes appear,In fives, then tens of passing years, Were golden times when you were young,Two dancingContinue reading “The Blue Sun”

I seldom know when I write a poem,I seldom know for whom,But sometimes I have a person in mind,Perhaps I’ve written about you. Do you enjoy the rhyme of nature,God’s created works of art?Have you traveled a lily with a frog,Flown high with a singing lark? Told a joke to a laughing parrot,Sat by aContinue reading “The Gift of Inspiration”

He seemed to feel some pleasure,In the parlance of pain she planned,A saturnine range of aching,With no care to understand. Once he died, he found surprise,In the weight of empty pockets,The loss been tossed in exchange,His agony, her final target. Aimless space through endless time,In the bottomless void he can,Now embrace the night inside,His heartContinue reading “Love Missing”

The island glows on carefreenights of youthful moons,storm winds swaying palmsand rousing white tippedwaves in an orchestra ofocean blue. The island sings the gentlerhythm of Pahu drums,tanned girls musically swishtheir lauhala skirts ofhumming hips telling storieswith mudra hands. The island hears sharedwhispers ‘tween loversunder leaky thatched roofsof amber straw as they sipcoconut milk and starewithContinue reading “Island Night”

A gift of red heat dozing,The waterfall from my eyes closing,Images of light disappear,A passionate grip once dear. The memories behind me leave,Their testimony but a tease,Destined as we once were,Entwined in a twirling blur. Honey toned sirens declare,From tangled weeds full flared,The songs erased by thirst,My heart from bosom bursts. Spoken stories eternal beware,AContinue reading “Dimming Firelight”

The autumn breeze stirs fields of green,To sustain her mournful soul,Celestial globe to winter leans,Cross farms of harvest bowls. Her calls echo the mountain range,Ice crystal’s morning view,From frosted pairs of windowpanes,Stare ponds of her eyes blue. The cold slips in with freeze in tow,Its silence soon numbs the mind,Her dreams of distant memories slow,InContinue reading “Looking for Winter”

Glowing slivers of fingernail moons,White sands shine in suns at noon,Springtime rains on nature’s blooms, Tender starts that still our heart,Moans of lovers when they part,Dragonflies in thin air dart, These shiny sides of silver coins,Spin on edge to fall when joined,With purity since purloined, Spoils of oceans and barren hills,Senseless wars destroy and kill,SmellContinue reading “A Garden Drowned”

Sit with me on this rockby the clear trickling springwith three small yawning fish,Hold my hand as Dawnspreads her yellow rose fingersto tickle a blue ocean of sky,Rise to walk the hills of treesin a molder of crunching leavesonto a trail of canopy shadewith its rock-rooted path of tired feetand back into Day’s sun-filled embrace.Continue reading “Summer Walk in Appalachia”