I stand on tortured twisted rocks
Two and a quarter miles above
The surface of the sea they were

These birds choose to live in rarefied air,
Where all around them mountain peaks
Can be

She sits in a spindly lane-side tree,

Plump and delightfully pompous, 

Chest feathers

Garrulous choughs gather in the valley
As dawn etches rose and violet gullies
On frost-shattered

They retreat forever
From futile steps
And hide behind
A sudden wood.

Spider-silk catches

Pressed between sepia
pages of fading memories;
chapters of painful loss,
in a well thumbed

Look to the sun,
Hearts on the run,
A man kneels there alone.
Right from the start,
Give him

running for me is freedom,
running for me is time alone,
running for is done in any season,

It's a time for giving
And receiving
A time when people come
And always leaving

Glad to see

My back never lies
I just choose not to hear,
Until it's truth runs out of patience
As will eases

My teacher introduced a stunner, I drowned in that quotation

Bright-skinned and slim with a smile

There are times
any surfeit of feelings
can flush my plumbing
as empathy induces
leaky

THE MAN I PRAYED FOR

I prayed so many times, for a man to love me unconditionally
I prayed

Gathering in groups until 11 is made
the Sunday boys come to play
the Sunday game.

Serotinal

There was a gas attendant at a shell station on the corner of 72nd avenue and upper boones ferry rd

Do you ever get that feeling
When your heart is filled with joy?
When the world feels kind of

God is Love.

There's nowhere
that Love is not.
Come. Let us share
in a lovers

Today a royal visitor
made it's way into
my home;
upon its entrance
I knew its Soul.
And now

When you smile
my heart fills with joy.
When you smile
my feet lose touch with ground.
When you

CELEBRATIONS
(Easter 2011)

i

The bleached
Biscuit of parched
Stone reflects
The

Alone again!
Now that you have gone away,
You have taken your smile,
The sunshine and the

When poppies cover the fields
I will remember you.
When poppies in the wind
bend and

Where have those days gone?
That were filled with love and cheer.
Because you took the time
To

Babe, where's your smile,
Don't be a melancholy child,
Can't you see
That the summer's come?

I have the blues today!
I am feeling so down,
I need your loving smile,
To lift me up again.
I

Snow flakes fell peacefully from the sky 
The sound of the snow falling as my best friend sat by my

I can feel it coming on once again
The little tickle inside of me
The child that needs to come

If the thunders disturb your night rest
If you are frightened by the lightnings
If every drop of

I’m an occasional binge drinker...
your average night time thinker...
I am nothing special,
my

Woman,
where is your joy?
Forget tides and build sand-
castles, playfully greet tne

In the darkest night I pray for you
In the deepest ocean I waited for you
In the sweetest dream I

The distant bells resound
in the breeze. Wind dances
with russet trees. The birds,

There was once a foaming sea
Facing near eternity.
On it, a woman and child
With hair blowing in

Are the motions of her breasts, her feeling?
Do their tender curves tell her tender thought;
Which

Where the world sees
Mountain top trees
Reach for the sky,
Waterfalls sigh,
And crystal

Sitting upon a silent shore
Looking out to sea,
A man out of the depths did draw
An