They say it's where you make it

There's Great Mystery

in the world
all around
everyday could say hello
to new sights and sounds
and smells and tastes
and new ways to feel

But of all there is...

what gathers round

hope you see

plane as can be

Love for Friends and Family

In the first

as all things

little and small

seed to a tree

in our own time in our own way

arriving after another
at moments just right

know each good and well
we crawled from the sea

left wars to build a farm
milk from cows
honey from bees
this is living
sitting growing eating
next to you
beneath the shade of our family tree

A Monday Message to a Friend

In the meeting pool
where
calm, clear waters gather
and peoples
relax in peace,
begin to collect
and give name
to new energies,
new hopes...

In these waters
I'd see you swim.

The world's deep hunger, Part II

(* inspired in a Tuesday night at Deerwood St.)


This ol' reck of a life...

close I come
to loneliness
pretty damn far
taken time in place
and surrounded amongst friends
sing and dance,
fatigue...
I'm wide awake
in your company.

hard system
whole body
noble and right

way to push
better explain
understand
all y'all
family
well rooted tree.

~ * ~

Dry land or
under water world bounty
     lungs starve
     gills get wet.

starve
so much around
long term life's
will to live
meet to feed on
poverty of life.

Mysterious, unexplored
energies come here
saturate this place
energies know home eternal
will never leave
intense an special
we've amassed what
most amazing I've felt
our family's shadow from the sun
long I hope into the future it casts, glows, and grows.

To hold you...
your company ?
Proof life abounds
untethered, free
willing to grow

guidance through storms
light in the dark of night
smile in the morning
whisper on fire's light
possible potential
day fresh and new
a bran-new day
for me and you
      and you
            and you
                  and you.

Under the skin
is the weight of the world's stress
pushing come-outside compulsions
validated through a school of thought
that screams, owns, and knows......."Let Me In"
and anxiously awaits to greet you my dear friends.

The world's deep hunger

Put a grown, full ass man
to the ground

Night falls fast
choose your luck, when
peril pulls down fear
pulls down near
truth
certain in the first
growing by seconds
mirth, fury, and sound

Sink or swim, worth
time and place

Fantastic boost, calls
culls to build to dazzling beauty
a life-line, a sanctuary
a pillar amongst dust and sand
a port in a sea
a place of comfort in the storm
a home away from home
between water and land

On the outside edge
a sacrifice catch
but what’s the use
can’t use it here
anymore, anyway
watch it fly, fly far away

Breaks, what breaks, no breaks
damn there breaks in the pattern
was it all ever perfect
at first, still is, maybe was
always in confusions
precisions exist in ways
unrecognized, but felt
within to strive toward

Gone today
home tomorrow
between is the story

Worlds shut down as necessary
so others can come to own a breath
and scribble meaningful marks in the living memories
as every leaf hopes to grow a tree
of greater strength and persistence
and take this humble seed to a mighty tree
with nothing more than honey, sun, water, whiskey, and wind

Abide, the dude abides
time’s nonstop approach
the roots of this tree
the branches that shade the sun
grow from me
beneath this bark
focus and power grows
pungent, ripe with idea to supply a cannibal
pouring potential
like oxygen into blue blood
to force deep crimson birth

Portuguese Sailboat

pleased to say o'
the ways
you arrive
pleased
to say
your way came
a wonderful day
a spirit in time
to spirit away
far off past the
sunshine, beach break, and triple color sunset creek bay...
and the waves
the endless waves
arm an arm
along feet swing feet
a midnight walk
wet sand beach...
approach
foot tracks fall
ride run and disappear in the break,
in the shoosh and woosh of night's endless rising tide

thinking o' you
how beautiful you exist
an the smile
discovered
in the pull an tow an night.....

The house that Eric built

The Thump and Lick
of base and treble quickly
lit

A hum and tune in mind provided to a brain battened down like hatches on a ship of fools set to sea with ambition and practiced prowess 

The Thump and Lick
The See-You Through
Sweeping change
Fresh and new



The family
You build with open arms

A fitting reward
To the kindness in your smile
A reflection perfect of you

Not out for gold
Not o' conquest
The treasure dig-dug
The rock wealth found
Residual deposits
Mined from the veins, creases, and deep grooves
of a family man's open arms

To feast from famine

driven like a soup spoon

diving
down
deep
for a ladle human comfort
sweep away late night 
summer rain sorrowssweep away hunger pangs
from starving belly bottoms 
throwing down broth
to a sea of anger
percolating 
converting
energy 
digest

Fast 
as time 
burned within rooms 
of laughter and smile
so fast moments burn forever
and freeze in time
reality converts memory
alive forever forever never againIts a lightning life
all in the bent span
turning within the fleeing breath of a hummingbird’s wing

Seasonal

A leaf leaves a tree

In the sky, 

from the ground

you can follow the tract
of the leaf
lighted on the wind,

plucked off its
 solid but soft brown sponge stem 

gliding now in a fall of oscillation 

upon an invisible pendulum swing

A leaf leaves a tree

An accepting devastated branch

a billowing entranced wind 

a waiting wanting ground

and dirt which knows

no beginnings

and no ends

A leaf leaves a tree