Music

Who doesn’t love a

Rousing marching band winding

Its way through streets

Churning up excited emotions

But me but now

I prefer to whistle

And sometimes to hum

Both of which fade

To a saturating silence

River

It is the knowing

The current you never

See which moves things

Along at breakneck speed

Come dip with me

Let us dive deep

Deeper than sun can

Witness let us know

Those dark things that

Only touch can find

WhatIKnowNow

My forever is behind

Me having been spent

But never squandered what

Used to be a

Map is now a

Scrapbook it’s funny how

Fast things happen how

Quickly life fills in

The blanks and love

The colors now if

You are young and

Especially if old save

Only your pennies and

Spend absolutely everything else

WhatOnceWas

There was certainly before

And then there was

When and now there’s

Now and tomorrow might

Be coming but love

Is like water itself

Sometimes rain sometimes monsoon

And the heart a

Creek bed capable hardly

Always able to handle

The deluge of storms

Breaking banks tearing apart

Leaving waste and destruction

Until at last time

Redefines what was once

Happenstance

And then by happenstance

Two people didn’t meet

Where they should have

But met somewhere else

As though one oak

And one elm sapling

Each took its own

Flight from far off

Trees and landed side

By side two different

Yet similar things at

First prone and later

Tall and so strong

And shading the other

This will be our

Story if we have

A story to tell