Empty dippers above

Empty dippers above

Where do all our dreams go

Falling on deaf ears and

Lost in moon river flow

No universal bees

Pollinating planets

That nudge in their passing

Without touching magnets

O life companion loss

O life companion loss

We never parted ways

I played by ear your song

Before the Monet hays

New to love and beauty 

My heart made room for yours

Unknowingly last day

I played your song from pores

Take me there and leave me

Take me there and leave me

Where sun invites silence

And time is transparent

All one moment science

Healing from the hardness

Still soft with compassion

Then sounds of clocks chiming

Timeline an assassin 

Steady or wavering

Steady or wavering 

Only resting on falls

Eye level with blurred feet

Deadlines like bugle calls

Beneath forward looking

Younger generations 

Arrowheads are buried

Past civilizations 

Hold me stone statue and

Hold me stone statue and

Cradle me in cold arms

Stare at me with dead eyes

False protection from harms

Caress me with chipped hands

Let me pray on deaf ears

I will kiss your hard lips

And wipe your chiseled tears

Too many fingerprints

Too many fingerprints

Shy but transparent Art

The performing dancer

Last apple in the cart

Ships along the shoreline

The Titanic steals hearts 

Mystery has magnets

Life journey without charts

The twilight brush fading

The twilight brush fading

Falling from stone facades

Taking the stark shadows

In the changing of gods

Footsteps are returning

Clouds pulled by western jets

Like zippered sleeping bags

Camping as the sun sets

My youth has grown old and

My youth has grown old and

Not much really matters

Doorstops on the doors while

Resolving the afters

Oak trees are now bent trees

Markers formed on the trail

But never a hiker

Or dizzy donkey tail

In the midst of nothing

In the midst of nothing 

The edge of some abyss

An empty useless hole

Like a drain for a wish

Comes a deep train whistle

Out of the void and dark

Filling the air like moon

Washing me to my mark

The clouds dropped down and hung

The clouds dropped down and hung

The rain not far to fall

Not a bird in sight and

Morning like a nightfall 

Roads less traveled destined

To find no roads at all

No end to signify

Whatever may befall

Forward and letting go

Forward and letting go

Not like a river wide

A funnel to future

A strong focus applied

Exhaling universe

As I try to inhale

Orion’s Belt is bright

Knowingly not to scale

White handkerchiefs waving

White handkerchiefs waving

The garden border set

The gift of our seasons

The permissions of let

No oceans or mountains

A mere slippery bank

No clouds in the water

As we cross in and flank

In a tender moment

In a tender moment

Your feelings enter me

All the seeds then flower

On occasion, a tree

Not looking for rescue

Claiming the only road

Neither of us princes

But surely not a toad

Tangent for a moment

Tangent for a moment

An explosion of glee

Old friends moving forward

Lives apart but still we

Remember and planning

Celebrating achieves

Compassion for hardships

Until next time then leaves

In the absence of dark

In the absence of dark

Shadows stripped from below

Unrequited returns

Two lanes of traffic flow

Out of the conch shell and

Bivalves open prayers

Chords in cacophony 

Community of cares

No hope in tomorrow

No hope in tomorrow

Tourniquets and stitches

Cannot stop time bleeding 

Nursery to ditches

Nothing in my pockets

A scarf around my neck

Here are my gloves, keep warm

There’s splendor in the fleck

How strange as we stare and

How strange as we stare and

Stop the blur from blurring 

We no longer belong 

Interactions slurring

Empty office buildings

Deserted on Sunday

And postcard pictures that

Will never find their way

How the crow kept cawing

How the crow kept cawing

Alarming other crows 

The sparrows and robins

Sitting ducks in repose 

The broken glass and trains

Chimneys huffing with ash

And the earth still moving

The caw not balderdash 

Markers of no matter

Markers of no matter

Have I let the time lapse

The frailty of dreaming

Reality en masse

Still the spindrift glistens

Passing rainbows split light

A moment expansion

Enjoy now with forthright