Hideous Nature, Life

Hideous nature,

life …

Ghastly in its death bed/its beseiging compass

run its course.

Bewildering with its struggles/

writhing in its pain/

desire seeking fire/rifting 

terrorism’s claim.  

Severed thinking/

thoughts of creepy crawlies/

struggling through fright’s night  

against

all reasoning.

There’ll be no full moon tonight to guide

the single masted ship 

sailing saw tooth tiger’s biting cold/

forces wrought by ghastly winds

likely to prevail.

Tossed about by night time breezes blowing/

dark clouds racing toward

every horizon filling every void

every which way/all shades of gray/

lashing tempest breezes 

blowing light’s deepest freezes into

nascent; sadness into dreamer’s hearts

with misery’s delight …………

Hideous nature,

life.

Echoes

Echoes

I wish that I could live
forever …

in this
north country

where

giant pines and oak trees
give their

leaves and
needles …

for the pleasure of my
rake …

where …

the never ending blend of
sand, sky and
great lake
water …

sooth the gray tides of my
mind …

where …

surrounded by
echoes from
time long
past …

wrapped in light
beneath a full

moon …

I sit apart
from the lure of a
world …

that

waits for me

to

find

my

way

home …

Night Of Pain

Watching from outside the tap and spill/lights that bring/dawn to tell/early nightime/what is real.

Night birds railing ‘gainst the falling sky/take flight from blue to lesser light/into deeper shades /to black of darkest night.

With full moon rising not in sight comes,

night of pain.

Echoes

I wish that I could live

forever

in this

north country

where …

…..

giant pine, oak

and

birch trees

give

leaves and

needles

for the pleasure of my

rake

where …

…..

a never ending blend of

sand, sky and

great lake

water

sooth the gray tides of my

mind

where …

…..

surrounded by

echoes from

time long

past …

wrapped in light

beneath a full

moon

I sit apart

from the lure of a

world …

that

waits for me

to

find

my

way …

Summer Breeze On A Winters Day (A Reflection On Alzheimer’s Disease)

Summer Breeze On A Winters Day

I walk among lost souls who /live in a land of despair and confusion/ spending their time adrift on dark seas or /pitching through the gales of their personal storms.

Their eyes stare out from darkened rooms at /a world that’s only vaguely familiar;/a place they may have visited once upon a time/ in a dream.

To them, I’m a moving object/ uttering a strange language in an /unfamiliar world. / I can’t touch them because time gone by is their only refuge and /I don’t live among the ghosts of their past.

Their light is an infrequent moon glow,/an occasional blaze of lightening, or/a meager sunrise.

Bright sunlight is as infrequent to them as /a summer breeze on a winters day is,/to you and me.