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

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

A Letter to My Future Ghost

Beyond my life

There will be

A Ghost of me

Left behind

With nothing more

To say

But what I might ask

I would arrange

A conversation

To see what regrets weighed

Hardest on the mind

When all was over

To see the future ghost

Is to know

That I am limited to these moments

That I have

On this earth

The Moons Confession

In the middle of the night

When the water moves

Slowly over the glass shore

The moon embraces the dark

Sky

Above

With the slightest motion

Comes the confession of the moon

To the ears that listen

But could not hear

The moon sang it’s song

In the midnight clear

Through into the morning

Of history and thievery

Consistency

And heartbreak

The moon sang me to sleep

That night

With the sky and clouds gathered

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