Passing Pok-o-Moonshine

My guidepost in the Rondacks fair

Lead me home again

Along the gray and winding path

Through dale and hill and glen

A loving friend lay at your knee

Mirroring your form

Chaste Butternut, her surface calm,

Beneath the brewing storm

You gaze at her, with chiseled look

Stern, your countenance

But soften as you see in her

Your rigid governance

She is your one and only love

Biding all the while

Beneath the falling autumn leaves

She’ll win your every trial

The two shall never cease to be

Companions e’ermore

For who can quell what’s in your souls

which none hath heretofore?

Clearing in the Gold

Beyond the bend there waits for us a clearing in the gold

Filled with scents and sounds and sights, a glory to behold

When reached that spot we’ll breathe in deep and feel profound relief

Thankful to our Gracious Lord we held to our belief



Mockingbird on Cedar Tall

Oh, Mockingbird on cedar tall

From your perch observing all

Speak to me of him I love

Watch over him from up above

Gray, demure, you channel me

Through your eyes please let me see

The one I cannot see myself

Secluded here on history’s shelf

Sing softly for his listening ear

A song from me you must endear

To manly heart within his breast

Of love I have so long suppressed

A note from you might act as seed

To promptly make his heart concede

What knows he dwells within its realm

And let our love soon take the helm

Brook the Brunt

Return, return from whence you came

He’s not the one that you should blame

If loathe you here the life you bear

Then leave.  I’ll love him.  This I swear.

For you’ve been given life that’s well

Your home, this land in which you dwell

He’s not the one should brook the brunt

Or slave as if he were your grunt

So rid yourself of country wide

And steadfast by him I’ll abide

You oughtn’t have had him anyway

No longer must you us delay

One Sows One Reaps

I had a conversation with the past

And thus she spoke to me

Take care the tender heart you hold

Else it may want to flee

Though fortified it seems without

It’s fragile more than known

A carelessness could lay it low

Its loss you’ll then bemoan

So in kid gloves please cradle it

And it will grow in leaps

He’ll give you all the love you’ll want

For what one sows one reaps

Through My Pen

Lord, the plan you’ve laid for me

Is difficult as it can be

But I know You will bring me through

With love all-powerful and true

Please guide me in a patient wait

‘Til I arrive at Glory’s gate

And if I see him not ‘til then

Let my love lift him through my pen

¡Andale!

There once was a gal so love-needy
Whose man from afar was named Petey
She said “Hey, Petey boy
I am not just some toy.
So you'd best '¡Andale!' just like Speedy” ;)

Rift

As if it never happened

More and more apart we drift
Will there never come a moment
When you finally fix the rift

It’s up to you, you know it
Since you pushed me away
Though I’ve longed to be beside you
Each and every passing day

You go on with your life

As if I never did exist

No acknowledgement of a love

On which you did insist

You claimed to feel a bond

Which you knew I also shared

But outwardly you’ve acted

As if you never cared

Perhaps that is the truth

And you faked some special care

So I’d look like a fool

Like I’d imagined this affair

You surely had me going

Believing in your heart

But you made me doubt your honesty

With your keeping us apart

Affair I called this tawdry link

Though never such a thing

For we never met in secret

You just kept me on a string

Promises you made a lot

When you really meant not one

So this affair was over

Long before it had begun

My Sweet Muse

There recurred these two dreams

In my days as a girl

Which played over and over again

In my juvenile mind

I could not figure out

Exactly what their meaning had been

The one of red shoes,

Small and flat Mary Janes

I’d wake up believing them mine

When I’d open the door

To the closet I shared

Not one pair of these shoes in the nine

The other, so different

A man in my life

Whose face was always a blur

With his hairline so black

As he spoke in strange tongue

Which in me made my heart stir

As I grew older

The one had been sated

The first time I had bought some red shoes

But the other for years

Still eluded my grasp

Until the day you became my sweet muse



Companion Soul

Of all the places that you’ve been

That you should land up here

A little town of no report

That blessed, fateful year

Little known what lay ahead

A treasure to unearth

But no one yet had chipped the coal

To find such diamond’s worth

Sincerity my chisel sharp

Had cut beneath the char

Of lovers past who valued less

Your soul’s most brilliant star

I’d always hoped such men were real

But had begun to doubt

Until my eyes had opened wide

And my heart became more stout

I found in you a man so rare

Who’d stepped right from my dream

And felt with your companion soul

That love began to teem

Though years have kept us far apart

And time has cast its spell

Deny I can’t, you’re in my being

Forever there to dwell

If you don't want him

If you don’t want him, I’ll take him

To have and to hold as my own

I’ll feel myself lucky, a winner

And all of my love he’ll be shown

If you don’t want him, I’ll take him

He is simply perfect for me

I’ve loved and adored him forever

So why don’t you just set him free?

If you don’t want him, I’ll take him

I know how to love such a man

If you can’t stand him, don’t worry

Cuz, honey, I’m certain I can!

If you don’t want him, I’ll take him

But you’re making a costly mistake

For I know what he has deep inside him

And I’d wager my heart for his sake

So, if you don’t want him, I’ll take him

And don’t you dare ask for him back

Cuz he’ll be all mine for the taking

Now hurry and give him the sack!

My Grail

The Taj Mahal doesn’t even come close

To the treasure it holds inside

I will pick away at the locks that bar

And will try everything untried

It’s a fortress really, that steel trunk

A formidable foe it be

If it takes forever, I will pry it loose

Even if just by degree

I will not stop, ‘til I see it full

And can clasp it with all of my might

The task won’t be easy, I already know

But if must, I’ll continue to fight

You see, that trove under lock and key

Is my grail, my life-long crusade

I will capture his heart and help it stay put

In our love we will then barricade

The lesson to learn is of firm diligence

Despite all the highs and the lows

If you see to the end and your purpose is true

You will win, the Lord Our God knows

Migration of Thought

To balmy clime from wintery grip

You’ve traveled to and fro

And every time you made the trip

My heart would follow so

Back and forth your venturing

Had wisened the naïve

Thus assuaged indenturing

My heart upon its sleeve

You travel where I cannot pass

You also form duration

Of moments when I must amass

My heart for new migration

As I Sojourn

Turn a corner, see anew

Perspectives I’ve been wasting

Let the flavors then accrue

A sample for my tasting

Honored Guest

Hello, step in, and sit right down

Glad to have you come around

Let me offer you a drink

A bite to eat, now, let me think

When was the last we had a chat

A little talk of this and that

It seems forever since we spoke

Or shared a tale, a laugh, a joke

We’ve fallen out of touch it’s true

Time for a coffee or a brew

Please let me make just one request

To finally be your honored guest

Mi vida eres tú

Looking through old photos

I can’t stop the flow of tears

As I see you less and less

Throughout the passing years

I can only sit and wonder

How your life goes on sin mí

And every day’s an exercise

In life without esprit

When will come our moment

To make one life from two?

When will you finally realize?

Mi vida eres tú

Upon a Swell

What could it be that you possess

It captives, I must confess

A turn of phrase, a shift of thought

The gale in which my soul is caught

Your word reflects an ancient rhyme

That bends the light against the shine

Like setting sun upon a swell

To stave off melancholy's yell


Reverie

The stories of a coastal life once told to me

Come flowing back upon a reverie

'long blistering shores of sprawling northern lake.

Fond memories I never will forsake.

A gentle breeze, though salty not it be,

Brings whispers of that past comradery,

Where anecdotes of distant youth abound

Of joyful times with closest friends around.

The white sails spike up through the steely hue,

As pricks of sentiment such daydreams oft imbue.

And I, reposed on sultry grain-ed beach,

Am jarred from thought by memories of our breach.

Reverie 2

As couples walk and children play
The waves a gentle, easy sway
The beach the same, my thoughts are too
And all I do is think of you

The closest heat I get to passion
Is sweltering clime of this same fashion
Relief from it that never dawns
Tethered strongly to your bonds

Oh when will sweet release arrive
To loose its grip and me revive
This agony must surely end
And with it our connection mend

Rare Sighting

The slow approach to autumn’s chill

Finds me deliberating still

The glide to humid midday lull

And morning’s edifying cull

Amid the haze of white and gray

Rare sighting to which thought does stray

In contemplation’s scope I’m held
Of needing life's essential meld


Reminders

Reminders of what used to be

Away with thought do carry me

And safely written by to keep

To treasure when I want to weep

They once existed, yes they did

Despite your wont to keep them hid

But I know that they did indeed

No matter if you have their need