Over the years, looking across the tables at you
ambiance may change
meals range from simple
to aromas meandering tropical islands
roaming ports of call in far-off lands
the little Diner of long ago
caught in a torrential downpour
afterwards the petrichor aura
riding home with you
there remains that infrangible moment
when your tableware searches for another morsel
caught up in a moment intent
looking up, your eyes meet mine
a Duchenne smile adorned by doves perching
upon the Cupid's bow you wear
the moment i am reminded
reaching across the table
the oxytocin in touching your hand
rainbows are forever
Eugene 8/25/26
The rain comes heavy
Ascending from clouds saturated with summer
A river appears in my driveway
It follows the slope of the land
fills a shallow pond to it’s brink
Frogs delight blending a throated chorus to the melody of the storm
Thunder, the handclap of God,
Summons the Crescendo - lightening bolts -
No rainbows at night
An elm, drunk from heaven’s nectar,
stumbles to the ground
Her branches alter the river’s path
Filling the hole where her majestic trunk once stood
Out of death,
Life appears
Life's storms help us grow.
The raindrops all come and go.
Sorrow soaks, lingers.
But the sun soon shines again,
Bestowing us a rainbow.
On a drive I saw two arches of color
Two arches of color of such brilliance as to bring joy to the heart
Two arches of color striving to meet each other in the middle
Two arches striving but never meeting
A sadness of the moment or a hope that they will someday meet
Better to see the moment and look forward for when they meet
For time doesn’t stop and neither should we.
The world is not the sum of its rainbows,
nor the tally of its storms...
it is the vision carried in the soul,
the inward star or inward eclipse
that shapes each step.
God's great sky views
Observe with awe and wonder
Designed to make a promise
Silent sounds of God
Rain is a must
Art at its finest
I feast on its beauty
No gold to be found there
Bold beauty in the sky
Overwhelming eye-catcher
Wonder working of God
Speech in the language of God
sky full of color
in upside down u shape forms
bringing awe to all
doldrum drizzling day
through Kodachrome lens I gaze °•
rainbow-tree captured
As shakes it, forebodingly
To beat what has ceased
As one heart, fraternally
With war near, world now
Only for them is full of
Bright omens the sky.
Its future hope, God's pure love
Hand in hand endow.
Ripping the sky with His finger
Anointing winds to carry clouds
Inviting blue bird as singer
Neon songs carry on so proud
Blessed to see the rainbow
Only as a sign of His grace
Wonderful Counselor we know
Signs of His love cements faith
I always followed the rainbow,
and its graceful arc across the sky.
The colors of the spectrum
are beautiful to the eye.
Yet, I was also focused, and resolved
to find that pot of gold -
more than mere colored light,
something solid to have and hold.
You may be a step ahead of me,
and already know the story.
I never found that pot of gold
in this allegory.
Leprechauns are known to mislead,
and now that I am old,
many years of experience say,
rainbows don't go with gold.
It's gold that is intangible,
never to be shown,
and the rainbow you can have and hold.
I guess this, you've always known.
As I look up in the Sky
Following the recent bout of Rain
A magic crystal Rainbow has appeared
Just like a narrow window pane
The multi-colored majesty
Glows brightly in the sky
It makes me stop and wonder
From whence, and how and why
It has suddenly arisen
Out from its pot of gold
That lingers at the Rainbows end
Or so the stories told
It is like a Crystal Staircase
Heaven sent for me to climb
So that I may disappear
When it is my time
The different hues that shine so bright
Red, Green, Blue and Yellow
Even Orange on the odd occasion
The whole sight just looks so mellow
One moment my Rainbow is in the Sky
The next it has gone away
Just as mysteriously as it first appeared
To return hopefully, another rainy day
When I stopped
taking Sertraline
again,
I felt too much
all at once
including
a cacophony
of anxiety
I hate to acknowledge
that even I
need a little help
to get by
I didn’t choose my mind
in the lottery of life
I decide what I put
In my body,
everyday
grapefruit juice
for health,
avocados
because
I love
their shade
of green,
and meat
because
I crave
meat
what I choose
to put in my mouth
directly affects
everything
all my little,
daily outcomes
don’t seduce me
as much as you,
sexy Devil
little pills can do so much
I don’t want
to tap dance with the Devil
when I should be sleeping
Righteous sing to the bright star in the sky.
Hymns of faith, devotion and love vibrate
through the entire body, speaking within
one’s skin to the finger tips…blaring while
scaring the long-awaited dreams from their
roost near an old oak in your mind’s chest.
Graceless and faithless villains caterwaul;
the old toss coins into the fountain of youth.
Virus’ knock daily upon my locked door
of which I will never answer those calls.
In dreams, I see paths to the waiting trains;
Toys lay in the dead leaf fodder on the path
a lovely doll’s face, her blue eyes stained
staring towards the musty decrepit squalor
trudging along the dark path I lift my gaze;
Truths lying dormant for decades bleed into
the night sky, creating rainbows in the dark.
Tilting windmills, chasing rainbows
I run and run to catch up with the sun
Instead of simply waiting
For it to come around again.
Like a child I build my castles
At the edge of lapping waves
With moats and berms and bailing bucket
Knowing the inevitable awaits.
To cry just the same when it comes
Wave after wave,
Cleansing and removing
All my efforts, all my dreams.
Seasons come and seasons go
In every realm and stage of life
And still the child remains within
Wishing upon a star in vain.
Please give it all to me,
Make it last, make it mine
And never take away
What is nothing but a dream.
(1/10/26)
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