OneLeafTwo (for Miles)

And like the leaf

That blew far away

From the forest I’ve

Spent time wondering where

And how but knowing

That if I did

Then surely more have

And surely more will

When yesterday one did

And that one meant

More to me than

Any forest ever could

Happeness

Knowing where one belongs

Is different from knowing

Ones place admitting what

Makes one sing is

More important than being

Able to sing being

Comfortable with nearly nothing

Is oftentimes calmer than

Seeking everything happiness should

Be spelt happeness for

I have found my

Greatest happiness when things

That make me happiest

Naturally quietly simply happen

ShinyPennies

I’m no longer afraid

Or angry oh yes

I retreated into myself

When like a turtle

I’d been touched too

Often by unfamiliar hands

But now time passed

And out I come

No longer wishing to

Impress but be impressed

Like a tarnished penny

Full of glee at

The sight of newly

Minted and shiny pennies

Oh aren’t they beautiful

OneWayOrTheOther

I no longer wished

That life vying and

Betting on the unknown

What once had been

Sputtered and lurched like

A car out of

Petro in the desert

Now stranded does one

Return to what’s known

What never really was

Or move on into

The what might be

FriendsLoversOtherwise

There’s no rhyme nor

Reason why two people

Friends lovers or otherwise

That are essentially different

Yet attract one another

Some may say that

They see what’s missing

In the other but

I think not I think

That what brings

Two different people together

Friends lovers or otherwise

Are their shared strengths

For strength can be

That shoulder upon which

To lean that hand

In which to hold

That smile that invites

And that wink which

Causes a shadowy blush