Best Cycles Poems

The rosebud blooms—makes its grand debut 
in joyous spring.  Day by day, its
petals open wide—all stages lead to
fullness in the end. When autumn air
delivers chill, its petals drop as life
and death their endless duet sing. It
then awaits new life next spring when
The rosebud blooms—makes...

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There is a sadness
     In the sunset
As the dying sun
     Fades away,
Twilight mourns
     In solemn silhouettes,
And birds retire
     To their nests.

Then at moonrise
     We see...

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Cycles


Our
flowers
bloom, begin
their earthly time
in life; with sun and 
rain, daily they contend.
And day by day, their petals 
open wide; earth stages create 
fullness in the end.  They then enjoy
new life awakened with rebirth of Spring.

Our living earth does promise us new life,
after sleep of...

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Times such as these test body soul and mind
So should our thoughts be pain and dark confined
Or loosed to concentrate on brighter things
Like furry puppies, flowers and girls on swings

In this bright morning sun as I roved out
Past village houses waking to their day
With little...

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Mid-day darkness crept across the browning meadow
Autumn sought a place to practice her ritual perfidy,
Menacing as an evil spirit she hovered like a shadow
Transformed the green, plucked blooms ruthlessly.
Strewing the lush foliage laid barren along the path
As though a windstorm had tossed it with no...

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A cool caliginous
night
Crickets in their abode 
talking
A desolate street with no
lights
A doddering man
balking

Soon dusk kisses
dawn
Birds are out
chirping
The sun is shining and the curtain
of night has drawn
The exuberance of girls
playing...

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First intent of a Quatern poem

Closing and ending life cycles 
Persons arrive and leave our lives
Some are destined to be besides 
The rest of our existences

Nothing lasts indefinetely
Closing and ending life cycles
Appreciate things immensely 
Fully enjoy hours and minutes 

Live with a total awareness 
Conscious...

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  A blessing indeed is my washing machine
     wash, rinse, drain, spin 
                         Voila! My clothes...

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New buds breaking bring
           The bees to flowers nipple
           Spring feels love's sweet sting

           ...

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Caught up in cycles of love-hate
she dons a smile to hide her hurt.
Yet, those conflicting emotions
lead to inevitable pain.

In her fantasies, she's happy;
though that happiness is fleeting.
For in her world of make-believe,
she conjures hope from denial.

Jealousy lurks in the shadows;
taunting her devastated heart.
For whenever she's...

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Life
moves on
circles turn
seasons cycle
one to another
endlessly carrying on
as life is recreated
and it flows on seamlessly
new blossoms to tempt birds
flowers bowing their heads 
green grasses flourish
apples swelling 
crops ripen
winter
snows...

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In raw dawn I emerge
crow-thoughts
pecking skull-bone
black as plowed earth.

Farm-stench floods –
dung, hay and blood –
primal musk of life
and death intertwined.
Yet in this first breath
of day there’s a peace
and so stillness
rising from the land
like a satin prayer.

Twin mountains loom
granite-toothed giants
gnawing at the pale sky’s
underbelly.
I but a...

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I've startled a frog, who leaps in flashes.
He and a grasshopper zig-zag away.
The lawn whispers mildly, in tune with the sun,
Yet something's amiss--the air is unsettled.
Squirrels and I stash away seeds,
salvaged from spent, rain-ravaged beds.
Bees are now torpid and cling to the mums.
Bedraggled zinnias give...

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tides flow in then out
     waves appear then disappear
          rhythms of nature...

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The time of growth and change is done and past.
From thaw to frost activity prevailed, 
And change came often, often coming fast, 
Till finalizing Fall all toil curtailed.
With wintertime’s quiescence, come at last,
The old year’s final breath has been exhaled. 
   And now...

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