(2008)
Little puts a smile in my heart mo… it’s one that I have woken early t… on my early every-day drive to wor… of time. I look in the mirror and wonder at…
The snow slipped in (we watched for it all day long) Like a secret lover slipping out o… All that we saw (when we finally s… Were the footprints showing where…
Icy needles Stabbing at the skin, Razor winds Cutting through Layer upon layer,
Thirty miles to the west, sleet an… thirty sleeps the bay, temperer of… While snow and ice chill the west,… up to our chins. Here by the ocean… Instead of the sound of waves grow…
Listen when the butterfly Settles onto your hand, Feel the footsteps. Marvel in the paper-thin Jewel that has flown to you.
She asked me, “Poppa, What is love?” And I thought and then said “Love is what you need and want it… She thought some and said,
Walking alone on streets I was fa… felt that I was lost. If it weren… A-spin, I looked for my map And saw that I was lost.
Winds swirl around me In their familiar way, A touch here, another there, They move me along. I’m like a leaf:
The sunrise sun backlit the now br… it passed through them to light a… of fog strewn across the road. I shuffled through those pages ear… would have done so without me.
Lay me down Beneath the forest floor Between holly and oak. Lay me down Where snow and rain
Sun on the water, The surface looks like An old woman’s skin, Delicately wrinkled by time: The time it took for
As the party lights dim, as the we… green of summer is forgotten in th… it’s here, it’s time for farewells… Autumn is the year’s last party.… of the party goers. They slip out…
to be remembered by someone younge… people to be respected for who the… what they have. spring to last a few weeks longer. to always be thankful.
I held the rose So long ago, Held it tight, too well, And still, the thorn lives Deep 'neath the skin,
From the sky They come– The geese fall to open-armed earth.
