A lone dandelion
On a hilltop gets
Buffeted by the
Wind on a bright
Spring day
Its seeds are spread
All over the hill and
Country side to
Celebrate spring
With bright yellow
Flowers
Tag: Poem
Beauty of Nature
Look up in the sky and
There is a breathtaking
Sight of a huge cloud
Of monarch butterflies,
Thousands of them,
Making their three
Thousand mile trip
To a warmer climate
How can a delicate
Creature do such an
Extraordinary thing?
This is the power of
Nature
Guarded
The cellar is guarded
By spiders watching over the
Canned goods in the dark
And the satchel of money
From the bank robbery
Ten years ago
Hymn
We open our eyes. Another day.
Bright sun has risen again.
It shines on all of us.
We live daily under the sun.
One day, we will not be there,
Oblivious to the sun,
Which finds our hearts
In the forests, rivers, seas.
How Happy Are The Geese?
They circle the lake a couple of times
And land together on the edge of the
Lake and start foraging for food, anything
They can find
Their familiar honking call reverberates
Around the lake
I have never seen an unhappy goose
Searching
The grizzled old man walked
Into the shelter seeking a
Place to sleep for the night
Because it was freezing
He got a place and put his
Duffel bag next to him
If any of the other homeless
People knew he had one
Hundred thousand dollars
Tucked away in his vest a
Riot surely would have
Broken out
He talked to nobody
He looked as forlorn as
The rest of them
He was just trying to find
His family and lost to a
Horrible disease at the same
Time
It Won’t Kill You
Pain
Comes
And
Pain
Goes
But
Survival
Is
Here
Forever
Out of the Blue
I do not know why it happens,
But out of the blue
Life slaps me in the face
With a wet tamale,
And it all comes back to me
Even your look
Time
It has been said that
Time moves slower the
Farther you travel toward
The edge of the universe
And bends back upon itself
Meaning all that has ever been
Will repeat endlessly
If there is a place where the
start and stop meet, a timeless
Condition, where husband and
Wife embrace in an endless kiss
Behind the Scenes
Lots of things go on behind
The scenes that never get
Noticed
A mother taking care of her
Newborn baby, a nurse caring
For an elderly patient who is
Unable to do anything on
Their own, a teacher spending
Time tutoring a student, a minister
Comforting a troubled young couple
–these are the behind the scenes angels
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