In A Sigh

I hold my breath.

I let the world slip out

Between my lips

In a sigh

I hold my breath.

I let the sorrow settle

Into the water at my feet

With no good-bye

I hold my breath

Frustrations trail away

In the waves white froth

The tears I cry

I hold my breath.

I feel the stillness of the earth

Of the boundless water

Of the deep sky

I breathe out.

The stillness spills in

To fill the spaces now empty

Of sorrow, of frustrations

Of the world I carried

In a sigh

I am Sorrow

I am sorrow and despair

I wail in darkness where no one can hear

For no one will care.

I am anguish and frustration

A failure at everything I’m meant to do

A selfish abomination.

I am heartbreak, I am wrath

I scream against the winds that drown my voice

And destroy the good in my path.

I pound my fists against the walls

That grow thicker with each blow, with each tear

That, in bitterness, falls.

Why do I continue to rise against the storms

Why do I fight for those who fight against me

I will lay down in the hurricane that forms

And be swept into the thrashing sea

I am sorrow and despair

I hear you calling my name, but I am lost

Are you still waiting out there

Winter and Summer

Even in the cold of winter,

Where only darkness grows,

There abides a breath of summer

Beneath the winter snows;

For life sleeps deep beneath the frost,

Swathed in mist and haze,

Where there abides, within its roots, 

The dream of summer days.

Tripped Up in Mid Flight

She caught her hem upon a branch

And bent to draw it free

Instead her hair got tangled in

The branch of that great tree

And what a sight it must have been

For everyone to see

The haughty princess of the night

Snagged up at nape and knee

Winter's Love

In the grayness of the winter

When all the world’s asleep,

My heart drowns in frigid waters;

The cold tears that I weep.

Somewhere in the winter’s darkness

I hear your whispered voice;

You left me on the eve of autumn

And leaving was your choice.

You could have stayed and kept me warm

While snows piled deep and chill,

You left me to warm another

And winter wracks me still

I prayed that you’d return to me

With every tear I cried,

But I know you will not return;

Your love for me has died.

That sweet spot where love first blossomed

Is shrouded in deep snows.

The scars of winter mar its beauty,

For love no longer grows.

And I will not return that way,

Though winter’s snows may melt,

For summer’s sun can never thaw

This bitter cold I’ve felt.

And in the grayness of winter

Your dead love still lives on,

Frozen within my icy heart;

It bides, though you’ve moved on.

Morning Out My Window

I Love It When He Winks At Me

You sit there, looking down on me,

As if you know it all;

Mysterious and secretive

You hold my mind in thrall.

You smile at me and I smile back,

I just can’t help but grin.

And then you slip softly away

And I’m alone again

Where do you go, when you leave me,

And why come back around?

You’re always just out of my reach,

So far above the ground

But still I wait each night to see

Your impish, cheery smile,

My giddy heart leaps up with joy

When we can laugh a while.

Wings and Reflections

I long to sweep above the sea

My wingtips in the foam

I long to rest upon its breast

And call its waves my home

I long to wade the silent strand,

Where summer meets the sea

And watch my still reflection there

As it looks back at me

Mist and Peace

Still the morning, silent the mist
Calm the restless sea
The swift wings of a passing gull
Brush by me silently

Tossed and blown, my shattered spirit
Battered without surcease
Oh, let the quiet misty dawn
Imbue me with its peace

Ducks in the Rain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh look, how darling, ducks in the rain,

Their feet get wet, but they don’t complain

Bobbing for fishies is their delight

But off they fly when they get a fright!!