All the snow has melted

All the snow has melted

The geese are flying north

Soon the trees will turn green

And flowers will push forth

Gaining its momentum

Another Spring is here

Winter unraveling

The weather less severe

No life preserver and

No life preserver and

Do not send a lifeboat

Do not rescue me as

I try to stay afloat

Better to fail trying

Refusing any aid

Knowing I swam too far

But do not be afraid

The middle of the night

The middle of the night
All the world is asleep
The stars are wide awake
But do not make a peep

The noise has surrendered
But soon will have its turn
The sun will chase the moon
The daylight will return

Again the outerspace

Again the outerspace
This cold and lonely place
Home to the human race
The stars brilliant and bright

And here's another war
Hungry mouths wanting more
Pollution, shore to shore
We must make these wrongs right

It is indifference

It is indifference
That divides our landscape
Like a void, a desert
From which there's no escape

To find there is no love
No life or fertile soil
No one gathers here as
We shuffle off the coil

I have nothing to say

I have nothing to say
No meaning in my words
No vocabulary
Adjectives, nouns or verbs

Like a painted picture
The shadows never change
The movement never moves
Or objects rearrange

Strange to end it this way

Strange to end it this way
No handshake or head nod
No gentle caresses
Only left feeling odd

All the years together
Not adding up to much
Are they nothing at all
But tidbits, crumbs and such

Who could have known that our

Who could have known that our

Two lines would become skew

No tension or feeling

Indifference ensues

Not sharing happiness

Even sadness subsides

No pull from the moon or

Back and forth of the tides

Sidelined by circumstance

Sidelined by circumstance

All the trust is broken

No acceptance of fact

When truth is not spoken

No use in pretending

Ignoring what is real

Best to be naked and

The truth that it reveals

Biting apples, searching

Biting apples, searching
For my totality
Only to discover
My own mortality

Waiting for open doors
Opportunities rise
And fall, if not taken
Result in compromise

This grand hopeless dreaming

This grand hopeless dreaming
I have come to regret
My arms around the World
The wide fisherman's net

There's a pile of papers
That I can't seem to sort
Yet wanting World order
Never seems to fall short

Setting sun, crescent moon

Setting sun, crescent moon

Feeling too incomplete

When will the twilight fade

And the daylight retreat

Leave me here with the stars

The black cover of night

Will the snow clouds gather

And blanket my world white

Feeling all alone here

Feeling all alone here
A vacuum in a jar
Making constellations
Of unconnected stars

Dreaming of the future
And hopes that have survived
Yesterday is finished
Tomorrow has arrived

All of this energy

All of this energy

Racing against the sun

Another day passing

Another dream undone

We journey and journey

But can never outrun

The clock keeps ticking, there’s

Nothing that can be done

There is no protection

There is no protection

We destroy carelessly

The cornfields are suburbs

And now farmlands, cities

We cut down all the trees

And pave the fertile soil

We pollute the water

And the fresh air, we spoil

At the end of winter

At the end of winter

A slow tempo swansong

Spring is awakening

The days are getting long

Soon the fury of life

The eruption of green

The sun will rise higher

The stars less seldom seen

No immediate cure

No immediate cure

For this lasting regret

Hard to understand it

Difficult to forget

I’m dragging this anchor

Will I ever let go

Echoes of penitence

Without finding furlough

Some forgotten music

Some forgotten music

Its words are now unsung

Its tender notes silent

A bell without a tongue

Masterful and charming

Its harmonies, its tone

No longer making sound

Its melody unknown

Finding this false ideal

Finding this false ideal
Its sword is in its sheath
No excellence inspired
No fire which burns beneath

Abandon without hope
Realization denied
No light from within, no
Application applied

The battle is over

The battle was over
But the war was not won
Our backs turned, not facing
A cold war had begun

And the years have expired
No tap on the shoulder
Not seeing eye to eye
Coldness just gets colder

How I found the beauty

How I found the beauty
It took a second glance
Past the initial flaws
Its character advanced

How strong the impression
That was almost mistook
How much to admire when
I took a second look

We are in a corner

We are in a corner
In the widest of space
A small fraction, a dot
A tiny, little place

Where stories without proof
Shadow the exquisite
Appreciate nature
Learn to live within it

Not a jigsaw puzzle

Not a jigsaw puzzle

Pieces put together

Not a chip or break, or

Passing of bad weather

Something that can’t be fixed

No cure, no healing scar

The loss of a feather

The falling of a star

In early evening with

In early evening with

Winter clouds spread apart

A golden sun settles

In the horizon’s heart

For a short while longer

The sky remains light blue

As all the lights turn on
And glow a twilight hue

The silence of winter

The silence of winter
Even the winter birds
Are silent on branches
Not speaking nature's words

The sound of a snowflake
The quietness of light
Catching it as it falls
In its descending flight

White cornfields, black starlings

White cornfields, black starlings

A cloudless winter sky

Falling snow has fallen

And now the sun is high

Journey beneath the blue

The season at its prime

Land forever rushing

As we chase passing time