Healing

Here at the Home,
we permit daily visitors:
the pastor, the accountant,
the lawyer, the cop,
the actress, the dancer,
the school teacher, the shrew
None of these people really know you
Therapy may help to deter the disease
But should you find yourself looking
at the law from nine different angles,
remember what was told you before your
personal Big Bang,
before you were made,
The Original You….
And the little blue pill
by your bedside

The End of the Cunning

The leaves will dance
And the birds again sing
When finally the cunning is gone
A long expiration from night until dawn
When the cunning is gone
The hucksters give up on their scamming
The showmen give up on their cons
The starlets and models surrender their clothing
No matter what rags they have on
The players recreate for enjoyment
The agents are shown to the door
The floor is now nature’s, the clouds are the sky’s
Now that the cunning is gone
All across bridges and nations
Real estate is no more real
Sensation, emotion, and love rule the day
Now that the cunning is gone

When the Wind Goes Home

When the wind goes home
And the leaves go limp
And the rain has sent
Us all within

I’ll still remember
Blowing through your hair
But you are gray
And the wind’s not there

Was a world of thrills
Now a world of woe
The wind went home
And the world says no

Freedom flags
Are torn and spent
The wind was high
But the wind just went

We had a boat
We had a sail
Now we have a sea
To no avail

For when the wind goes home
It’s a ragged world
I picked you up
I told you girl

The Poem

Each syllable of the poem
Was hiding in soft cocoons behind your eyes
Transforming me, transforming you
Into branch and water
Bamboo and cloud
Unspoken plaintive heartbeats
Were the cadence of these words
Each letter lying languid in a lonely silver lagoon
And the poem like a river was unleashed raging
Finding us flying
When we kissed

Scent

As a dog smells goodness
Draws near to honey
Sniffs and shuns all sorrow
So I move toward tomorrow
Thieves around me
Stay away

Barriers No More

Sun and moon
Went out to play
Found nine friends
Broke the color barrier
Now sandlot baseball is played
With planets of every race
Thank you Venus Mars
And Mercury for
Proving that
We are all
The same
Inside

Holes

Through a little hole

I climbed out

Saw the stars

Beautiful cataclysmic universe

Coming at me way too fast

I'd like to focus all my life

On one twinkling freckle

In the face of this great mother

But she died without warning, and I'll die too

Back into another hole I go