LoversDogs

Oh how the nights

Are long a time

For lovers and dogs

This time dawn time

Is my absolute favorite

When both lovers and

Dogs stir one getting

Coffee and the other

Love sometimes I think

That one would prefer

To be the other

WarmerTogether

It is cold here

Here there and everywhere

It seems a time

Of reflection of gathering

Of friends and things

Of moving inward and

Away from the outside

Winter has a way

Of reminding me that

The warmest place of

All is my heart

Come friends sit near

And let our hearts

Warm each and everyone

DenverMorning 🌤

The eastern Rockies sky

Looks like its west

A cloud bank stretches

From pane to pane

Atop which hovers delicately

Foamy white like icing

A few loose strands

Like almost invisible threads

Or perhaps even lint

Or shedded dog hair

Comes and goes as

Quickly and with little

Desire of staying like

Visitors to a hospital

And now as the

Sun makes its appearance

Low and deep all

Of it turns crimson

On this the twenty-first

Of December in Denver

NoLongerBull

So what does one

Do with all the

Dreams not yet fulfilled

When does one stop

After having lost my

Love of a lifetime

I decided to charge

Like a raging bull

Into a colosseum chock

Full of unsuspecting matador’s

Flinging them this way

And that only to

Find that I’m no

Less angry and disappointed

And now in another

New town and place

I begin to wonder

Do I put away

My horns and frustration

And simply graze contentedly

On the far forty

Acres enjoying the view

And become just one

More of the many

Put out to pasture

It’sNotNot

The hardest thing

To face is

That you’re not

Not going to

Be not going

To have not

Going to keep

And not going

To get so

What do you

Do with a

Life that is

Missing things you

Sit and you

Count your blessings

For all of

The marvelous things

That you do

Have did and

Loved and you

Allow those memories

To fly freely