Sunday, September 29, 2013

Dreaming Down


Dreaming Down


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 When under the circumstances of living
Cutting winds of gray and cold
Rifle through and true my dreaming down,
To hopeful thoughts I turn
Where maybe when the world goes 'round
A dream forsaken
May once again be found.



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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Happiness


Happiness


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Does happiness just happen,
Something you catch like a cold?
Or is it chosen,
An attitude or circumstance decided,
Like a flower you place in a glass
To color the moments that pass?
Is it a state that develops,
A pleasure that occurs
Instead of a pain,
An imagining in the mind
That's really not there?
Is it a possession acquired,
A capacity possessed
Like an ear for a sound?
Is it a distant sail upon a silver sea
That passes too fast,
A rainbow dream
That cannot last,
A hidden smile
That's now unveiled?




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Could There Be?


Could There Be?


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Could there be another me,
A living presence in another world
Just like me,
A reflection universe with replicas
Of what is here?

I would not escape my wondering
For all the gods declared,
No solaces divine can compare
To the freedom of my mind.

For it wasn't with the wheel formed
Or fire made,
Nor when grunts became a knowing sound
That Man first touched the sky,
But when his searching mind
First wondered why...

I want no easy answers,
Only mysteries placed before my eye,
That I may ever wonder why.





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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Rainbows


Rainbows


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What a world this is!
Rainbows and waterfalls,
Songbirds and butterflies...
And a little girl's eyes.




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Monday, September 23, 2013

The Master


The Master


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I would be master
Of my fate,
But I find no helm to till,
No rudder, no mast,
No mooring line to cast.




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A Secret Sculptor


A Secret Sculptor


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A secret sculptor
Dwells within the sea
Far beyond the foaming waves,
Who nightly fashions
Finely forms of stone and wood,
Salvaged from their salty graves
To place upon the sea washed sand...
A gift for mourning strollers by the sea




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A Passer's Footsteps


A Passer's Footsteps


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 Leave a modest mark upon the stone
That Time will on its own erase,
For what you mark
Upon the name of man
Is but a passer's footsteps
Made upon a changing sand.



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Saturday, September 21, 2013

A Path Of Sand


A Path Of Sand


 
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The restless sea sends its claws
Against the bounding land,
Forging a battlefield
Deep in grains of fallen sand.
A billion years
The war has raged
To pave a path of sand for me
Between the silent stone and surging sea ...
Where I will soon forever be.
 





Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Cosmic Gifts


Cosmic Gifts


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I will be the one you see
Distant down
The sea swept shore
Alone amid the wonders there;
The cosmic gifts
The stars have shed
On their burning journeys
Down the inexplicable pathway
  Of Time. 


                              
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Sunday, September 15, 2013

Dreaming Of Colors


Dreaming Of Colors


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There is a toll that's paid
For dreaming of colors
In a world of gray;
A world
That breaks the pottery
And hardens the clay.



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Pastness


Pastness


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Moments flow by
Like molecules of water
Rivering to the sea...
Is there a great sea of moments past
Where time that was remains,
A vast pool of pastness
Beyond the reach of memory,
Beyond the reach of knowing...
Where dreams that died
Still drift upon the mourning tides?




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Monday, September 9, 2013

Winter Shades


Winter Shades


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My Spring thoughts
Came in the late days of Summer,
And now Winter shades
Even the golden rays of Autumn.




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