the night explodes

Giant fingers of light:

the hands of creation

hold me in the cradle of night

born again with each day

Darkness, prisoner carried

into these hours of glory

so that I glow---life tingles on my skin

in the power of this beautiful rainbow

from Time's spread-eagle prism.

ONLY REVIVED BY AN ANGEL

laundry-day was Saturday

beyond the clotheslines out my bedroom window

there was a newsline from housewife to housewife ;

so how come no one told me

my marriage was almost over ?

about to come to a screeching halt.

I, almost to the abyss,

everything invested

about to lose it all

in my own personal stock market crash.

THE RIDE

1.

The slender woman

Took the seat I offered her

As older than I - perhaps in her seventies.

A tiny woman

Whose identity otherwise

I could not scan.

She had been robbed of "everything"

Twice in her life

Never to achieve the goal of her youth

To study piano at Julliard.

She boarded the bus south

Commenting, "I think I'll like it down there."

Her destination, much less

Any return to a possible home, doubtful

But that importance lost

In her enjoyment of the ride.

2.

The driver's radio announced

A bus stopped by the road;

Soon another group of passengers

Boarded the roaring creature

Of the spinning wheel we rode.

They found a place, each one

And I had to cease pointing out landmarks

To share my seat with a weary woman

Returning the long way

Home from her work

Glad to be ever nearer that place

To rest for the night

Before finding her way to tomorrow again.

THAT WHICH IS ALL

Climb the mountain

Swim the sea

Walk thru the door

Into eternity

Share Time with,

Dance with the Creator

Endlessly

For He is you

And you are She

Open your arms wide

To everylife you abide

With God always

A part of that which is

All

THERE IS

there is poetry

in the words we speak

we hear valleys

& mountains ride the earth

where sparkling dinners are eaten of sun-

birds dancing in costumes of glowing leaves

hot with the tune

that love gives to us

Life

and the living of it !