Trees Perspective

02 02 2020

Back to Poetry posting 2020

I am now back to posting poems at least once a week on this site.  This past spring and summer  were a time of change again and another move but I am now in a new but temporary  situation .  I feel fine about this and it will be a new restart to my art business and to writing poetry, 

That is all a good thing for sure!  AND grateful for this new situation at this time!

January 19 2020

January26, 2020

Behind and Beneath

This is a painting 

that

like the idea

 and

 the poem

 has many points to the view

BEHIND AND BENEATH 

Behind the trees and all the noise 

Behind the children and their toys

Under  forest living trees 

Beneath the moving gentle breeze 

Under all the moving thoughts and colors 

Beneath all loving dads and mothers

United by a common waving thread

United by the blue the white the red

An underlying strong and waving cause

An underlying set of our laws

The constitution stands for many years

The laws that help to govern our fears

NOW Guided by the heavens above

NOW Connected by our human love

History is golden

Not to be sold in...

any way !

Or given away,

In that I pray

For Tomorrow And Today.

Don’t waste the golden ticket 

To the future from the past

Learn well and consider it…fast!

Or 

This wonderful earth won’t last!

Animals will Know

Trees will grow

The Moon will glow

Let your love for ALL show!

Where I Am Now

New Home In The Woods

Yes there are rabbits hopping by

There is a moon up in the sky

Quite and peaceful beautiful place

BUT

better when I get the boxes out of my space!

Soon I get back to poetry and art

Soon I' ll find a way to start

Once all this unboxing work is done

THEN 

I'll start to have fun

NO ...that isn't the way it should be

Start Now is really the key

SO

 I am here and will post per day

and that is the way it will stay

Best way to really remember

To relax and enjoy ...Now, not wait to September!

Better Bridges

BUILD  BETTER BRIDGES

Build  the BRIDGE

A God’s eye is watching you !

BRIDGE all Trouble

As peaceful water can flow under old bridges

TROUBLE can Calm

As God’s hand takes yours with guidence

CALM with Stones

As a life scape holds us together and foundations form

STONES will Build

As quiet water flows and new plants grow

BUILD your refections

As peace nurtures life through abundance of love

REFLECT on Bridges

As old walls are broken with building mutual respect

OLD and NEW 

Show us the reflected photo 

of

 BETTER 

 CONTINUOUS CONNECTIONS

Building Bridges

BUILD  BETTER BRIDGES

Build  the BRIDGE

A God’s eye is watching you !

BRIDGE all Trouble

As peaceful water can flow under old bridges

TROUBLE can Calm

As God’s hand takes yours with guidence

CALM with Stones

As a life scape holds us together and foundations form

STONES will Build

As quiet water flows and new plants grow

BUILD your refections

As peace nurtures life through abundance of love

REFLECT on Bridges

As old walls are broken with building mutual respect

OLD and NEW 

Show us the reflected photo 

of

 BETTER 

 CONTINUOUS CONNECTIONS

Words Fly

Here and Now

Listening to words

Hearing words 

we need to understand 

The Good and Bad…the TV we see 

Words that shimmer and/or punch

Upset the brain, not a great lunch!

Sometimes we all need

A bubble to hear the thoughts

Behind the words, we heard 

Some concepts obscured! 

What actions are implied

past, present, and future

By the words

What are the interior spaces

Filled with ?  

behind the words 

we

think we know but.... Maybe? No?

The thoughts...

at the brink 

of looking down and up

 at the same time!

No reason or rhyme.

Words should sing a song to fill us up.

Hard edged reactions can still rise

Reactions surprise!

I grab the thoughts in the air 

everywhere!

What will work today and future time

Doesn't always rhyme

What will work in generations to come

Must be done 

Where we all live

Love will help us give.

Here and now

Love will find how!

Not the strange and hard choices at hand,

But the larger ideas behind them

Constitutional Concerns

Must stand

A Basic Rule

A Peace of Soap

Clean up this mess with multicolored hope

Lack of compassion

So we need a better soap

Peace is not the lack of war 

lack of confusion

Is what We are looking for

To stand side by side in the center of the rage

Lack of connection

But willing to start on a new blank page

Peace can come home when no one needs fame

Lack of competition

Understanding and education is the name of the game

This World will not be free from violent action 

Lack of corruption 

Is The desired and necessary reaction

Clean up your mess you were taught in school

Lack of cooperation

Is against  the "work together on this" rule

Helpful Stars

Connecting The Stars

Some time I wonder

Sometimes I think I know

What do I really want

Where will life go?

Love and friendship are 

on top of the list

I have this and give this

so what have I missed?

Some connection is waiting

to be hooked  that is true

I don't know what now,

what I should do?

Life is deep 

and full of option

So stars help me find

the true connection

Colore Collide A painting in progress

This large oil is from memory of colors and shapes and movement!!

I have been working on the Colors Collide 

painting from the Grand Canyon raft trip

The back rocks and the right rocks now have more then a background color

Next is work on the left side

Hills And Biking Up

Quilting

The fabric of life

There are wrinkles and folds

Causing biker’s hill strife

There are rocks and hills in canyon molds

Difficulties give us ladders to the stars

Sometimes I might think to suggest

Life would be better if it were flat

Then biking up would not bring breathing protest

But life is not meant to be like a tumbling mat

Difficulties tightly tie the quilting strings

We would miss there vistas that now abound

Loosing life’s ups and downs—-not a chance

Where would the wind bounce to make it’s sound

How would the canyon show its color dance

Difficulties help us sing our song

So I am grateful for the hill and rock mixture

Grateful for the canyons, hills, valleys, and oceans

Painting, biking, family and friends give life's quilt texture

Stitching life’s challenges with the threads of motion

Difficulties are the backing that makes life’s quilt strong

(AND put gray hair where it does not belong !!)

Camping Poetry

Napkin Stationary

Moon is just sailing in the sky

Dinner is cleared and packed away

Ride is a memory stored in tired eyes

Birds are singing their goodnight cries

Chilled is the air around my shoes

Out here no nightly news

Just gold as the sun sets behind the farm

Camping has now added its eternal charm

Lights go on in the distant town

And

I am grateful to lay my head down

My On-Line Connection

I Bike The Line

I follow the trail line

 bike the line

Look for the path to start

Go as the line may lead my heart

But

Off the path most taken

Not the path most taken

The line goes far

I'm not on a path for a car

Wind carries the flowers smell

Biking brings closer the wind carried smell

A Tent at night is best

This gives me a great nights rest

Life Line blown by Bird song and Blue

Life of movement in a bike shoe

Life of time away from all distractions

Life full of bike trail reactions

Thank you life for this different line

And

All the stars above that shine

THE NEXT ADVENTURE

Night Thoughts

Canyon Starry Nights

A Grand Experience

The Grand Canyon

 Ruff white water ride is softened by the beauty of geology.

Technology is lost here to the wonder of the earth.

Worth is counted by age old  formations.

Coronation of king wind, water and  earths movement is here.

We sit in this theater decorated for kings

sings the water music played by light and laughter 

of the gone by canyon explorers

who pass their love for this 

place to 

me

I really missed my time hereon this blog and will give this site more attention now.  Somehow when I am not typing poetry I feel I am missing something.  So here is another restart.

I was on a whitewater raft trip through the Grand Canyon and now it is very hard to not add words to my thoughts on the wonder of that grand place. It was a second time I was there but even though the first was 45 years ago my connection to that place and its stone story is always with me.

This is the first of many but it also has a first painting that is tied to these thoughts:

Canyon Colors Collide

Reunion with magic

fantasy and glory

Rocks and water

tell an ages old story

Edges of sunlight splashed

on a river's past generations

Colors consistent with

children's paint fascinations

New memories are made 

as stories are told

There is nothing but joy in the 

ledges of gold

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