Authentic Germ

I started out small

As small as a germ

In a glass

Half full

But half empty

I made my way from cup to air

From death to life

Only to find that the world

Will hold you back

If it knows where you come from

So continue to grow

In a world new

Amongst the Northern Pines

Amongst the northern pines

Lays a bay

So lazy in summer

And frozen cold in winter

From the fresh waters of Lake Michigan

To the top of the spruce trees

The sky and the birds

Are all you need

To be along the fresh coast of life

Living right

Every moment at a time

The Weight of an Empty Chair

The weight of an empty chair

Weighs on my mind

What could be filled in that space

Misused and misled

The full weight is beyond the number

So know that the empty

Could one day be full

When Time Speaks

My own choices

Boiled out

Through the years

Distilled and ancient

But when time speaks

In a visceral tone

Known

To those who hear it

I have to take a moment to

To embrace the path

Of what was

And then breathe deep

To see what could

Be

Moonlight Wears No Chains

Through the evening and

Into the night

The free approach

Of the darkness

Unchained

As it goes

The smallest off dew

From the later afternoon

The moonlight has no chains tonight

In the crystal clear sky

Blanket Spring

Comes with the season

Set up by the turn

Of the earth

Each small bloom

Prepares a life

Force

To construct a

Vibrant

Spring

On the edge of the blanket spring

And

Can’t come soon enough

Sweet Discovery

In the silence of thought

The only new strain

Is the discovery

Of a hope

Buried under the lights of

A past gone by

But dispatched in haste

Makes new waves

Hopes

And opportunity

For the bright

Future ahead

The Postman of Forgotten Letters

Beyond the notes

Stamps and collections

The overdue letters

Sit waiting for a life

To have purpose of direction

The postman of forgotten letters

Grabs each and every letter

Poem and

Description

To take the words

Home to the rightful

Place of the address

To be sent

Until the Morning

Waiting all night

In the distant hope of alliance

With oneself

The moon creeps over the dunes

Soon

The sun will return

In glorious

March

To the day of another

No other

Than to see the morning

Rising in the eastern skies

The Echo of Light

From the sun

And off the moon

Reflections pure

As the day in bloom

Soon

The reflections of light

Will be the reflections of love

Hope

All that is done

In the unknown

So know that even though

We can’t see the light

We know that it’s there

Without our detection

For we see it in the

Reflection