Celebrate together

Celebrate together

The company alive

Minds like instruments let

The orchestra arrive

Tuba to triangle

Sober thoughts, fantasy

No limits or judgments

Crickets to symphony

I had to ask myself

I had to ask myself

Then refused to answer 

This, my predicament 

My own form of cancer

So it led to demands 

I finally came through 

But when I heard myself 

I responded “Not true”

Far from the ocean where

Far from the ocean where

Waves like pages flipping

The sand beneath my feet

Like time and tides slipping

Where clouds without shadows

Ethereal and white

Are above blank pages 

Where ships set out to write

Avoiding the abyss

Avoiding the abyss

Hostas are pushing up

The daffodils waving

The open tulip cup

Closing the bitter mouth

Extending arms in grace

Placid plateau of peace

Moving with a waltz pace

Passing time with knowledge

Passing time with knowledge

Discovering the knowns

People in retrospect

The meaning of poems

Reacting and reaching

Deriving conclusions

Making mental footnotes

Inviting inclusions

The beauty of the small

The beauty of the small

Pond ripples and plant seeds

The whisper of kind words

Where a narrow path leads

Petals falling from dreams

The dirge of passing youth

A collection of thoughts

Forming cairns of our truth

Robins are making nests

Robins are making nests

Not at all astounding

Another Spring is here

Evidence surrounding

Yet the thrill is profuse

Like seeing an old chum

A waiting gratified

With time, a change will come