~~ For once ~~

Its nice to sit beneath the stars
Just for once...
With buried healing scars.

Its nice to look toward the sky
Just for once...
And not to cry.

Quiet,
With promise of a new moon.
To enliven thoughts, lighten steps.
Words strung together
With spaces of nothingness.
Pointing with empty hand.
What’s between the stars and earth?
A hazy land too unsubstantial to be seen?
Yet felt.
Hushhhhh….enough now

It’s good to feel the sun can warm
Just for once...
A heart that’s torn

And it’s good to know,
A smile, surreptitiously, can rise
Now and then...
Behind these hazel eyes…

For once...

~~May Serenade~~

Suddenly,
The frosty days are put to rest
As winter turns to spring
WI cast my eyes up to the sky
To what this month will bring.

A day when dark clouds gently brew
With not one leaf a stirring
When thunder peals as lightning cracks
A raging storm, enduring.

As shifting winds blow here and there
Without a rhyme or reason
When March fades to April and then May
A turbulent sort of season.

I've waited long for nature's song
For freshness in the air
For rainy days and purple haze
For breezes sweet and fair.

A time of kites and windy days
A time when dreams are made
A time when nature alchemy connives to outwit age

Its piercingly sweet elegance cuts my breath in half.

As with other unfathomables
The fragrance of lilies is a mystery of the ordinary,
Perhaps, a sacramental leading to deeper mystery
A celebration of the unending serenity…

The earth shies away like a demure damsel
Drops of rain nest on me
Calms, soothes and caresses me
With sensuous innocence all over
An assemblage for the manna from heaven
A glorious May day serenade ...