Giving

Upon the heaving bosom of the ocean
Eager, playful, impatient
With her arms spread wide...

You knew what I needed and gave it so willingly.
Your soul was prepared to share all it possessed....

From my heartless void
To your loving soul
May you always feel complete and whole
If...

You show me what is pure, that I so long ignored !
You show me the marvels I should have explored...

I want to be the morning kiss
on your cheek
I want to be the sunlight
at your feet...

To those who insist
on bringing Jesus
into politics
to theologically
bolster...

It's impossible to make everyone you love happy,
It's impossible.
And yet still, we try....

The assignment was set upon me.

Dictated by the ignorant man's belittling tone.

A lesser...

So I go spacewalking in suborbital BIGwindows

There that waterfront forceFelt flighty

my...

The gift of words can mean so much.
Sometimes more than any touch.

They touch our hearts and...

…for L Caizley
written in response to her tanka, “Costly”

a true gift costs much
...

The voids are two-
One of the heart,
Other
Of the mind.
The former, for...

People scurrying to and fro

hunting for perfect selections

frenzied paces like rabid rats...

When the best of this life was unknown to me,

You brought into focus all that I needed to see !...

Loving ways were never my concern or priority

As I immersed myself in the affairs of day to day....

Visions which had sustained me for so very long

In a glorious union were proved not to be wrong....