Sunday, January 31, 2010

This has been a fast month
today is the last day of January
Most thoughts are of the cold
and the coming Spring.
And the best of all it is the start of
TAX season...arghhhhhhhhh
I owe i owe its off to work
I go.......
ya know if we did not have a
nasty habit of eating we might not
have toe work.
not much else happened this week
a simple question.....
Have you ever woken from a sound sleep
in the middle of the night to silence?
A silence so thick you co not hear your heart beat?
It is as if time has stopped
holding back all sounds of the night.
You lay there looking, listening at nothing
and everythng. There is nothing.
even the shadows stop moving.
A magic moment out of time
That is what happend to me
this past Thursday night
It is the subject of my poem
This month the moon is at its closest
point to the earth giving us impression
of the largest full moon possible. it is called
Wolfs Moon by Native Americans.
Wolfs Moon
....
Called from Sleep
4 a.m.
....
Silence whispers
Wait
Watch
....
Pulled from warm bed
To cold window
I shiver
....
Clouds part
Time stops
Their story begins
...
Rhythm set.
Frozen branch
Sways in winters
Breeze
....
Light and Shadow
The lovers dance
Just a touch
No more
....
Across crystal snow
They race the Clouds
....
Dancing
Upon my hands
They brush my shadow
Brush my heart
....
Clouds return
Story ends
Wolfs moon
Still pulls
At my soul
ccd 2010
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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Another week gone by. it has turned into a rainy Sunday. The snow is almost gone and the cold is a damp cold. It is the type of cold that seeps into the warmth of a fire and steals it away.. Ashlley says the sunrise was weird. She said the clouds were a watermellon red. Sigh ...seven more weeks of winter no matter what the ground hog says. I have not come up with a new poem this week I have been thinking of a fox at midnight chasing its prey ,on a moonlit nite running through the shadows. But, it does not compare to a pair of foxes in their dance at play, on a summers day
Looking for inspiration ,
today I will post one of my earliest poems
Goose Quill
....
As I set quill to paper
Ink to pallet
.....
What flavors to be served
....
From depth of black inkwell
Will sadness flow?
.....
Or shall it be grace and glory
From feather stiring the light?
.....
Let visions drop
From feather in flight
....
Find the heart, find the soul
Sing the prose
....
ccd
from the past

Sunday, January 17, 2010

The snowy weather has broken. The week of work was good,it did not drag , nor was it to short where I seemed to accomplish nothing. And yet it was busy enough to help me keep my mind off my friend Eric and his problems. As a Father I know there are no words of comfort I can give for his pain. He and is Daughter are in my prayers nightly and whenever they come to mind. Ashley has not given me the pictures yet to post of the snow here on Leslie rd. when she does I will put some up
Mountains Heart
In Silence I Stand
Cold and grey
You think
I have no heart
....
Proud man
Foolish man
Blind man
......
You see stone
I see forever
I watch eagles soar
Rabbits play
......
Climb up here
Arrogant man
Shout to the wind
.....
Tell them all
you've beat
This old man
.....
Now look to your feet
And see my soul
....
The little white star
With golden heart
You've named it twice
Lions paw and
Noble White
......
Its still my heart,
The little
Edelweiss
....
ccd 2010

Sunday, January 10, 2010

The first full week of the new year is ended. So what was it like? Well for starters there was snow, snow more snow and then more snow. Along with the snow it was cold, cold, and then colder. I am still waiting for Ashley to upload pictures from her camera so I can post them here. Ashley said to quit bragging about her. So thanks to her sister , Kimberly (my favorite oldest daughter), Ashley has a part time job with one of the lawyers in town. Maybe today's poem will help chase away the winter blues
Summers Dream
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Kiss the Breeze
Of summers day
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Mountain Glen
Wildflower scent
Running brooks
Cool caress
......
Lightening flashes
Kettle drum rolls
Dusted sweet rain
....
Butterflies float
And bees chase the honey
Name of the valley
Whispered by the trees
...
Held in mystery
For the heart to discover
....
ccd 2009/2010

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Ahhh beautiful weekend. it is snowing. It has been snowing since Thursday over Meadville. Fortunately it is a light powder snow. I measured earlier. Under my spruce tree it was at 9 inches (22cm) in the middle of my front yard,12 to 14 inches (35 cm) . I have shoveled 3 times today.. I still have to do it one more time. I took Ashley to work today and have to pick her up at 10 tonight. Poor little socks the snow is over his head. I have to shovel places for him to use the bathroom.. Ashley took some pictures today of the back yard. I will post them latter after she emails them to me from her pc. My pc is to old and does not have a slot for the camera card. I will amend this post when I can add some pictures this week I have no prewritten poem for a a day like this. So lets see what comes to pass.....
Winter Dreams
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Cold grey light the morning brings
Trackless snow covers the land
....
With trees sleep
Dreams are spun
.....
Morning light shows
On winters breath,
A dance unfolds
......
Falling, Slidding
Soaring, floating
Looking for its perfect nest
......
Hour on hour
The dancers celebrate
Longing for rest
...
When laid to bed
A single flake...
A single word
It knows it place
....
In winters cold
Trees do read
the story written
....
Beneath white blanket
Of winter Dreams
......
ccd Dec. 2009