Long Misty eyed Poems

My friends and I were out strolling, in a lush park one day,
Just enjoying the scenes of the afternoon, as time flew away.

Sun kissed blooms blushed and swooned, under pale lazy clouds;
And nature was lush...

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“Auld Lang Syne” - the most-sung New Year's Eve song

Courtesy Robert Burns
circa  (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)
the National Bard,
Bard of Ayrshire
and the Ploughman Poet.

Two hundred sixty one orbitz elapsed
since brief existence of...

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I was an experienced astronomer, with bright eyes ever turned to the stars,
As the mysterious, intelligent aliens, might in their turn, be looking to ours.

Space had always held fascination for me, with wonders of worlds...

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In starry silence and deepest sleep, 
I hold vivid memories and a treasured secret 
close to my heart of a long ago summer love. 
Ours, was a season carved from the sun's caress,
from a sun...

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It was summer in the mountains,
Daisies, bees and poison ivy surrounding
The little creek where my feet swung down,
Swaying gently over the trickling water…
Betraying the heat with its coolness,
Its calm – serene like the world where...

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The sun spills through the window’s pane
And settles upon a cherry wood cane.
And on that cane an old woman leans
As she stares out the window at trees of green.

Her mind drifts back to much younger...

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Dark, punishing days lie ahead.
       Winter has crept up once again and I'm deep 
      in sad contemplation, saying a silent prayer 
 ...

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When lost in the woods
one wanders lugubriously directionless
in the weeds vines and branches
obstructing the altogether magnificent world
that abounds and surrounds
the muddled mind of the soul-filled seeker:

Truth traveler and mystical unraveller
plodding ahead confused in dread
of what...

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Schuylkill Valley Encampment, February, 1778

Dearest Beloved,

This letter, penned with nature still enwrapped in winter’s shawl,
Might reach your hands by April, should it reach your hands at all.
Your parcel came this morning, now I take the...

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Rush hour time,hustle bustle all around
In the moonlight company of stars,
she was afraid of travelling alone
worried about reaching home safely
though she had company it was like doing favour
compelled as companion was her friend.
they hardly spoke...

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It was a long lonely night at the lumber mill
Just listening to a whippoorwill 
In the dark beside a logging road.
I’ve got fifteen cars of timber on my load.
The yard stinks of bleeding sap and...

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Eyes that cry in anguish, 
Uncertain and alone. 
Seeking some solution 
And searching for a home. 

When we used to play as kids, 
In contentment’s warm embrace, 
Was the smile I saw each day 
But...

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The Tears Bequeathed

Of frozen droplets’ ice water in his veins swamped his heart
                      little...

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The uniform was issued to him during the Second World War.
Tho' at first it was somewhat ill-fitting, it he proudly wore.
He was a mere lad of eighteen when his Army career began,
But as that savage...

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THE FENCE
Somewhere in my constant thought of you
the vagrant dream that comes but never goes,
are secrets of the past I never knew
and things about your life nobody knows.

You are the spark of life, reflected by
the...

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For My Mother

Although you are not here with me today, Mom
On quiet nights, I sometimes remember
How you held my hand and led the way           
Those...

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He ranked as de facto semiprecious,
tremulous and unanimous scapegoat
bullied by a bumptious, callous,
disputatious hippopotamus of a brat
infamous bruiser later in his life to become
forty fifth president of UnIted States.

Though documentation incomplete, the un
named subject referred...

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He stood misty eyed before the shining mirror
Of the musty green pond, and saw beyond
Its depth, through layers of rocks to sky. For
Long she watched the falling leaves framed the man
And then with curious steps...

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"recently scenes of early life have stolen into my mind, like breezes blown ..."
                       Quote by _Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Time rewind, loving touch of my mother
Snatched...

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Your sweet nectar fills my cup to the brim,
I never tire of your masculine touch.
You gave me hope in love, when all look grim,
darling you’re my soulmate and not a clutch. 

I will fill your...

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Dated: 24th October 2012.
You manifest with your musings in my heart,
Feel you so densely when alone or miles apart.

You make me misty eyed at times as I gasp for my breath,
You will manifest within me...

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Your sweet nectar fills my cup to the brim,
I never tire of your masculine touch.
You gave me hope in love,when all looked grim,
darling you’re my soulmate and not a clutch.  

I will fill your...

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See them bully boys in the schoolyard
playing penitentiary hard
Face-scraping the concrete ...
Neanderthal knuckle features marred

Look at the smart treehouse girls
(with Zoology swing low ease thus far)
put the dumb cave-butt chimps
behind the Donkey Kong monkey bars

Finding...

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Australia vet.

On a farm that has ten hundred sheep a lamb has a broken leg.
our intrepid vet is on his way to save it. He succeeded and we all
 get misty eyed. We who think...

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Well Until we meet again you'll be
in my thoughts and prayers
where ever your heart takes you
take care my love, take care...I know
you've got to follow your dreams
and I hope they all come true sooner
or later...

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