Spring Journey Poems

If you are the vast, ever-changing ocean,
I will be the sturdy mountain, holding you close, 
Embracing your gentle morning waves with care,
And welcome your crashing...

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Traveling on this unknown road 
Each mile past seems oh so slow
No reference points to speed it up
No common ground to smooth the rough 
Events...

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A deeper silence diffuses rapidly around Nature waiting
for its awakening, a shine less, discontent and wandering 
star gleams with a scarcely light so murky and...

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(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)

The student stands where shifting sands of thought,
Once firm with reason, now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes, a...

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Birds stop singing That summer spring morn The Son of God His head forlorn No need to tremble The gardens scene With men and angels...

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Love turns time of Spring,

Flowers to bloom and feminine rhyme on the ground.
Tree blossoms providing pollen to call on
Butterflies and hummingbirds flit around
So profound sweet...

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upon meditation when outside
suggested happenings it knew I 
would not like, sun-filled spring
afternoons piled up like books
stacked upon books, teetering,
then after attempts, the room 
went...

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We are but geese in flight, who are heading north to raise their young. 
Who brave the journey year after year, only to leave again...

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She is like the Dandelion
Tenacious and Bright 
Growing with Curiosity 
Inquisitively Seeking
As She Peers up at the World
Yearning to know all
Delicate yet Tough
Bruises come so...

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Spring arrived, ‘Twas the dawn of man
Consciousness exploded with a Big Bang
We foraged inquisitively for berries and nuts
Soon building settlements and primitive huts

A subtle spark...

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Shortness of breath, the struggle with stairs
The paranoid thoughts, of judgemental stares

Tomorrow I'll start, next week I will too. 
The person you're fooling can be...

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Clang, clang, clang, toots a trolley: X-s-teams,
though it's not the same San Fran by the Bay,
remembrance connects, perspective redeems,
sound stirs, 'Mathis', "It's Not For Me...

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Author Dana Redricks
July 18, 2023

As I flow through life’s rivers on my quest, in ceaseless motion, some truths persist, seasons, steadfast in their cyclic rounds,...

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Just a little spring that bubbled out from 'neath a stone

          She knew the rock was...

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I was a prominent theoretical physicist, relying upon beautiful mathematics,
Like devout gardeners everywhere, rely on butterscotch sunshine dramatics.

Rose days were spent inventing theories, to address...

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