Our Water World

Water, wet, wild, drenching substance Life giving, life making, Substance of dreams Surfing through our veins Fluid, engulfing our planet Slip & sliding, Through our journey in life.

Operation Struggle

It’s been a struggle Life turns upside down on a whim And rights itself in intervals Today was a good day, tonight makes me want to run away News media flashing images of war Sparking memories untold Praying for safety for everyone friend and for Land, oil, money, power All more addictive than opiods It’s…

GAIA’S OWL

Iris staring out of cold hollow Hoots echo, freezing prey Frenzied flapping causing skitters Amongst the fallen autumn leaves Silhouetted wings glide through New birthed moonlit sky Proudly showing her majesty In glory of the moons powerful trinity Sleek, not a feather out of place She pounces on prey Praying majestically in thanks To the…

SLEEPLESS

Light fades from the world People fade into dreamland Staring at the ceiling in frustrated pastures, Counting endless sheep in sleepless fields.

EMBRACE

Lips entwined, locked around cherry flavored chap stick, and strawberry Champaign Celebrating each other’s love, Their tongues embrace Arms holding tight, Warming soul and enticing mind, What better way to end the evening Than in lover’s embrace

BOXING WITH DEPRESSION

Melancholy hits harder than Mike Tyson on steroids taking pills disipates the useless musings that pit me against the world

MOUTH OF THE RIVER

Live silence, lifelike sounds, Hundreds of bubbles bubbling in leaps and bounds, Wonderous redeeming force, Rippling waves of dramatic sonic disruption, Drowning thoughts and words Flowing out the tongue, where Silence never lays, In restless slumber.

HOMEBOUND

Far away on open sea, Praying with all my hope, Wising I was already there, Lonely staring at haze gray bulkheads, We chug knot by knot, Towards homeland shores, Far away land,

FRENZIE

Dogged down hatches, Alarms blaring overhead, Speakers blaring, Men & woman shouting, Ship heaving against wave, Rolling in heavy seas, First blast hits topside, Sending seaman and officer to, the Davy Jones Locker, Bullets flying in air, Sweat and grease mixed with blood and sea, Glaring through smoke filled air, “4 O’clock, 80 degree turn”…