New Poems

Guitar - 

wooden body

steel strings

twisty machines

bone pegs

folk songs

rock music

rhythm and blues

metal frets 

good friend

Guitar - 

Recess - 

running children

loud voices

happy hearts

dusty shoes

dirty knees

flying balls

swinging ropes

climbing bars

loud whistle

Recess - 

Fishing - 

Casting carefully

looking meticulously

trolling slowly

selecting craftily

grabbing carefully

holding proudly

releasing kindly

Fishing - 

Crickets  

Chirping Mournfully

Summer is over and gone

Last songs of summer

Shiny black in fields

Jumping lazily along

Happy summer dance

Antennae swirling

Gathering information

Exploring their world

Six-legged wonders

Crawling, hopping, leaping high

Amazing black bugs

Red is apples on a fall tree

Gifts of fruit for you and me

Red is anger in a cold heart

Red means STOP and a strawberry tart

Red is blood - it gives us life

Red is war, evil, strife

Old Guitar

With taped up case and rusted locks

Much more than strings and a wooden box

It tells of friends from times long past

Of love so strong and meant to last

Lullabies sung deep in the night

To sooth small boys who woke in fright

Sing at the beach and the sandy shore

Or in my room and the wooden floor

On that humid porch as insects sing

At the bottom of the hill in that old swing

Marvelous mysterious melodies made

Using wonderfully crafted devices

Seeking beauty

In my

Careful fingers

Wasted

Anger and

Rage

Racing to the

End to find

Answers to questions and 

Dilemmas

Inside characters and events

Now I must 

Get another book

Heron Day - 

down on the porch

high up in the trees

not a leaf is stirring

for there is no breeze

morning fog is rolling

into the valley below

it's pouring like a liquid

thick and sweet and slow

I see a faint shape moving

in that mass of cloud

a great blue heron breaks through

it's voice is clear and loud

pulling fog behind it

as it makes its way

then on into the valley

it starts its heron day