Long Blossom forth Poems

Highlight of Goofus and Gallant 
bred within the survival instinct 
of hungry hordes of prey, 
when Earth in the balance 
against an uncomfortable truth 
smug smurf like scavengers. 

     Punishment meted...

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The missus served me high test coffee...

Ah... tis nothing more heavenly 
(to one borne again devout atheist)
then a spring like January 18th, 2023
here at Highland Manor apartments
picturesque green covered landscape,
where intrepid dandelions 
dare to defy...

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Lapsed contra dancer rediscovers his happy place

I tip figurative hat to the late Cathy Robertson, longtime (lifetime) Thomas Paine Unitarian Church member, who unwittingly and quite casually made mention of contra dancing, which inopportunely, inextricably,...

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The missus brings me high test coffee...

A cold wintry January 53rd, 2021
at Highland Manor apartments
picturesque snow covered landscape
safely ensconced within Unit B44,
we (yours truly and wife)
occupy bedroom and
television room respectively
comfortably numb and toasty warm
at sixty...

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Does this mean, like morning chores, cleaning up around?
Or does this, like grave-depths, has concept more profound?
Cleaning up the courtyards are perfectly okay,
Should we not, for love and justice, give more way?
Thorns and bushes should...

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Spring Equinox has come at last
As morning dawns from winter’s night
New dreams revealed from seasons past
Soft petals open to the light

As morning dawns from winter’s night
Awareness drawn from dreamers keep
Soft petals open to the light
Evoking...

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Lovely is the dawn
That starts my day of wonders
Though fog blurs my view

Waving in serene
Moist grass dripping yet daring
Then cast a shadow

Flows the torrid rays
From blazing sun at zenith
Flowers blossom forth

Behold fields and dale
Yonder are...

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The birds were flying home
Upon the setting of the sun,
The flowered track lead me back
To where it all begun.

In the twilight of the village; 
I glimpsed you paint your nose,
Couldn’t help but spy on you
High...

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The Chicken Or The Egg? 
The Chicken Came First 
Which came first the chicken or the egg was a question of preponderance. A 
question of the ages. I have ascertained all the answers to his...

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I tend the flowers I keep
 even in winter's chilly sleep
bulbs well protected from the winds of the north
 anxious to burst and blossom forth
and bloom radiant displays 
 thru winter ice and cold arrays.

A...

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When fields gleam aureate and song birds sing
and transient stars in clusters scintillate,
when sweet perennials are coaxed by spring
to blossom forth, he comes with sprightly gait.

He wends his way along the mountain trails
past opalescent rush...

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