The Lament of the Prairie Wind

The lament of the prairie wind

As the world spins on

Reckless with disregard

As the grass

Flows

Back and forth

The sun hits just one tree

Standing in the distance

As the time of

The world we know

Goes by

The Sunlight Plains

The sunlight plains

Play over the strained pull of

The wind

In the fields of Nebraska

When the storm falls over

The clouds and down

To the damp ground

Under the tree hides the birds

Of day

Awaiting the storms of life

To

Go away

Lanterns in the Fog

Lanterns burn in the fog

Over a street of stone

Heavy fog

Over the eyes

Crisp clicking

Horses

Play the notes

Of a full scene

Emboldened

In the spirit of

Spring

In the London

Streets

In the evening hours

The lanterns

Burn on

Where Wildflowers Whisper

Beyond the cat tails

And deep in the forest

Thought the tees

And over the marsh

Where the wind flows

Gentle and cool

There is a place

So remote

That the wildflowers

Whisper

Quietly about the coming rains

The expectations of change

The hopes of summer and

The end of fall

I live here in my own spirit

To take the flowers words

In the hearts

Of the ones

Who take the time to

To hear it

Feathers in the River

Down the river

Around the bend

The glistening waters

Run

End to end

As the feathers float

On the top

Brisk and easy

As the Summers breeze

Feels light on the skin

The blithering

Of lasting fall leaves

Deep at the bottom

As the feather floats

Like air above

When Silence Speaks

Can you hear it

In the midst of hate

Yelling loud and undone

When the loudest in the room

Is the undoing of our world

When silence speaks

Is when change happens

For the good

As we take on another

Life

Whispers Between Worlds

Whispers bent

Between life and death

For the new life

Of you and me

So somehow the

Spending of life

Creates the winds of

Unheard promises

Left behind

When all else fails

The Salon in Town

Words carry over

The stream of hair blowers

Coffee drifts away

As the clients come and go

In the warmth of the winter

With frozen streets

So gently iced

Yet full of times

In the city in the heartland

The lights of the city

Bear a hope

That the world can see

Beneath the Ice, a River Dreams

Where the river flows

Over the lands below

Carried along the banks

Along the land

Above the water the life that lives

In the mind of the lives

Lives

Dreams

Under the sheets of frozen ice

There is a warmth of hope

That glows

As the world ices over

Only the heart can melt

The icy river

The Flicker of Snowfall

Flickering snowfall

On the shores of Lake Michigan

Time and again

The powdered curtain

Of light

Dancing over the skies

As the world hides

It’s scars and cuts

From the industry that churns

In blossom of new metals

But the snow brings hope

To know

That we can all start over

In time

A new