Sonnet Lay Poems

As I lay sleeping soundly, I dreamt of keeping
The home fires burning so cozy and bright,
I could see the sparkling embers reflecting
In her face long...

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Sometimes I can feel, 
something on the way.
That will bring a change,
and a brand new day.

I think we're ready,
for a new design.
A collaboration,
with the great...

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There are painful pitfalls to happiness
No one, not I, is immune to misery's tragic tune.
We cry in the night like a wolf baying at the...

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I left a job that I had much enjoyed
To take a new position with a firm
That promised me that I would be employed
With higher pay...

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I've always been a simple man
But all  of that is long before
I found her name is Mary Ann
And she reads poems by the shore

I...

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Your head lay on my shoulder this while, Love,
And let us rest here, while the nations move!
For we have moments we only dream of,
And, for...

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When I Shall Someday Lay Under Frost On The Ground

In with dead and dying leaves I pass my time
Drink my strong coffee, write my truth,...

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Now gently, oh so gently, lay me down
caress me into blessed tranquil bliss
with tenderness undress me from this gown
then bend to touch my lips with...

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Lay this poet down
When the time arrives
In a field of fresh cut words
On a bed of softened rhyme

Fell free to cover me
From my head down...

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Fear not the fierce wind, o gentle heart
Though it may rattle the eaves
And give no ear to its whispers with nothing to impart
But shallow promises...

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The two yellow jackets lazily lay
Upon the chilled turnip leaf 
This November autumnial day
Waiting to be warmed in the noon day sun

Maybe they're in love...

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To live be last of two to cross that bar. 
To have to stay to weep to taste concern. 
To separate by time and distance...

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