Long Replanted Poems

Date: December 2040

Damian is on the phone speaking 
With architects.  He made
Airline and hotel reservations.
 Soon Afterwards he went 
To Molly and caressed her away from
From a sweet dream. "Hey, baby girl."
He sat on...

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"The Crow Bar"

she said,
here I bury my dead,
you can hear them sleeping
somnulent forget-me-nots,
snoring blithely unaware,
in neat rows between 
the thick,
ink injected lines,
their soiled lives
ploughed and 
turned over 
replanted
sunnyside down
expunged and 
wrung out

eventually,
not totally oblivious, 
they...

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Moving into a new home
with anonymous neighbors,
whom you typically have not even met
before deciding where you will replant yourself,
and perhaps also your significant others,
sometimes including multiple generations,
and pets and plants,
all takes place before you have...

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Welcome to a typical 'Luau' spread. The first thing that is best to learn is the Hawaiian word, 'ono', which means, delicious. It's a word bandied about before and after food goes in your mouth....

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At the kitchen table
Sat still like stone statues – petrified.
A sick game of musical chairs
Sat waiting for the muted music to play again.
Saplings uprooted early; replanted in rows
seated in toxic soil – a stunted growth.
Wooden...

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Byword People (Came By Way)



Pitch black was the day after
the nightmare before
When the blue wails
washed upon the sunset shore
Dark journey’s end for the castoff children,
who were unspoken for

Idol eyes resting carelessly,
got sin windswept upon a...

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It is crop time in Beantown.
The people of the City have the seeds to plant.
Their best harvest is the orange that is yellow.
Jake Castle is a great farmer.
His wife, Nefreda Maria, is one of the...

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It wasn't the usual Halloween night
Of parties and goblins, of which there'd been many
It was a year of big changes, for our family had moved
At ten years old, I was still struggling and shy
And, in...

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The creator wanted a thriving garden
For it was given everything it needed
To produce the fruit of it's tree
But it's desire and lust could not be contained 
Therefore the trees began to not produce
They looked promising...

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A strange blue rose - alone
midst an array of clustered flowers -
a few of them her friends -
the shy violets, lovely white lilies, and bold marigolds.
In the gracious garden spot the traveler singled her out...

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It's used as an afterthought, fattening festive 
arrangements for Mother's Day, Easter, 
someone's birthday.  An underrated vine,
enhancing center-stage flowers whose star-power 
doesn't wear well. It's the "coming attraction" 
that's there after the clapping dies down,...

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I am humbly discouraged.

Deer once again
devoured gainful leaves
on my lonely dwarf cherry tree
I last hopefully replanted here

In part,
because it was repeatedly victimized
by mammalian grazing,
predation I hoped to leave back there.

Stunted,
unable to achieve
even planned and scheduled...

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She's a soul survivor, the only one left in her family tree
the root which's been yanked up and thrown to the sea
There's no grandma's wisdom, there's no "'member when?"
She'll never step foot in her mom's...

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In an effort to immortalize you,
I gilded ocean size frames in gold leaf
and painted your portrait with peacock feathers dipped in oils.
I spelled out your name in bumble bee wings
still quite attached to tame bumble...

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Today like so many, I said a prayer for the families. For the students that lost 
their lives to a man that many didn't know.


  Heavenly Father, I ask you this day to watch...

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Within this earthly World
Seeds are planted 
Wildflowers... grow
Son---Shine's through

Watering God's garden
With Divine Eternal Love
Plant feeding.. with Holy Words
Bringing minerals... food to Flowers
Love... Faith... Hope... 
Healthy Soil.. Fertilization
For all God's Creation
God's Garden of Flowers--Souls

Beautiful Flowers of...

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He was airlifted to another place.
The heath, the dales,
the ridges, the high moors,
they all began to slip away
under throbbing wings.

Occasionally a woman would approach,
a silk moth in the semi-gloom
of a night flight;
he was tucked semi-consciously
into...

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Nothing hurts more than anticipation.
The fear of the unknown.

 

A love yet spoken.
Unspoken in desire.

 

Yet it sits and grows in the vase planted.
An odd since of humor. 
It learned to smile.

 

Sprouting buds and leaves.
The taller it grew...

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I moved onto the farm when I was eleven, 
To the farm eroded of trees.
I’d stand on the hill in the middle of summer, 
Unshaded in a blistering breeze.

Then the winter shook hands and my...

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Sunflowers in Winter

I planted seeds, at the wrong time,
never thinking they would come up. 
Why would I do that? 
Hope, faith, joy, and ultimately…
God.

He told me to keep moving when things were dead stop. 
He...

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 The festive season is nigh on
               give thoughts and prayers, to those who have none
     ...

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People ask why? Why do you express?,
Why do you wear your heart on your chest?,
Why do you even bother to explain?,
When people already know, don't you think it's a waste?,
Yet, I have always believed, we...

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The estate of my spreading life
has been plowed over many times.
Plantations have withered and been replanted,
grain fields have turned to dust,
have laid fallow for years
yet now the corn is high and golden again,
trees felled and...

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Been searching for it;
It’s already been found;
Been looking for it;
Already on my mind;
Well

I am a wretched undone;
Just me myself a lonely one;
I been livid, living life sinfully;
My Lord Jesus Christ came and set me free

I...

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Wheels of life dangle from delicate branches

Sway in the wind and embrace in quiet caress

	I used to be an acorn

		Now I am a tree


Seasons coloured in outside their softened contours 

Green yellow orange and red...

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