My fingers reach now
For strings to pluck, keys to play
Itching to create
3/3/2021 – Your smile
I walked without a sound
Went down a lonely street
And who there should I meet
But you
I quieted my lips
I opened up my ear
So better could I hear
Your voice
And though it’s been a while
You are beside me yet
With Fate I’ve won a bet
So ev’ry day I get to see your smile
3/2/2021 – Stories
For what do fantasies and tales
Exist, their characters and songs
Persist, if not to fill us all
With harmonies and histories and joyful music playing in our minds?
Alive once more
Wind howls and bites
The ground is icy cold
There is little green
And all slumbers
But life flickers
The sun smiles
Buds peek
Ice melts
The world is set to come alive once more
Icicles
Spires of clearest glass
As they would seem upside down
Dripping clean water
2/26/2021 – a haiku
At last I see green
And smell coming spring’s fresh scent
And my heart lightens
Sonnet 13 – Partner
I once went walking on a starless night
And found myself completely, wholly lost
As shadows twisted off the edge of sight
And strange and fright’ning sounds did me accost
I thought to turn around and find my way
By following the footprints I had left
But hidden with the ground they did then lay
And I was there alone, of route bereft
But in a sudden burst there came a star
The brightest light that ever I had seen
Though I had walked and travelled oh so far
It brought me close, a place I’d not yet been
And since that day she shines e’er in my eyes
And darkness cannot drown me ‘neath the skies
Sometimes I wonder
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like
Sometimes I wonder who I could become
Sometimes I wonder if it could be done
Sometimes I wonder what I could achieve
If I were a Tyrannosaurus rex
Inspired by children everywhere.

Give me the sky
Give me a sky
Of bright blue
With puffy clouds
A blinding sun
Give me a sky
Of deep black
With pinprick lights
A pallid moon
Give me a sky
Of dark grey
With lightning white
A heavy rain
Give me a sky
Of thick orange
With spots of red
A setting sun
Give me the sky
2/22/2021 – little symphonies
Little symphonies
Ever dancing ’round my head
Songs both glad and blue