LifesLullaby (for Tino)

Whenever you do

Anything that you

Love to do

You always do

It well because

Doing that which

You love allows

The heart to

Sing the miraculous

Song of heaven

Simply life’s lullaby

RememberSummer

Even inside I

Can tell fall

Is coming not

By color but

By wind licking

Trees and grass

Soon leaves will

Leap like tiny

Spinning parachutes landing

And carpeting everything

Under foot calico

Fleeing from chills

To warming fires

We will huddle

And remember summer

Winds (for Trey)

What I don’t

Want is the

Humid summer night

Breeze delicately wafting

Through opened curtains

Bathing me in

Late night chills

What I do

Want is fall

Leaves giving way

To November winds

And taking my

Autumn colors on

Wings to far

Off places setting

Me delicately on

Comforters of green

Where I can

Then take root

Grow and canopy

You many summers

AgainGod

Again speaking to

God He reminded

Me that those

That torment others

Are the ones

In bondage not

Those in chains

For those chained

Have free hearts

But those inflicting

Pain are indeed

Those most suffering

For cold hearts

Are those likely

To be broken

BeautifulThings (for Robert)

I do enjoy

Beauty is there

Nothing more beautiful

Than a field

Of wild flowers

Fresh and plump

Fully sunned and

Damp with dew

Except perhaps for

That dried bouquet

Kept for years

Simply because with

It comes my

Memories of you

And it’s you

That is my

Most beautiful thing