Amid the creeping boughs of cedar trees
I find a shadowed place to rest my head
Where verdant fragrances traverse the breeze
And mossy roots and vines make me a bed
8/17/2023 – a haiku
A thousand seeds sprout
And a thousand vines grow high
Bringing naught but gifts
8/16/2023 – lying in wait
Such color in the earth
All shades of brown lie there
Each life and death and in between
Each telling countless stories true
Each with the world’s potential stored
Within each smallest part of them
Lying in wait
8/15/2023 – rhyme
A rhyme is when two things collide
And in their hearts agree
That close together they reside
Upon the same bright sea
That in their essence is the same
Light shining ev’ry way
So much they share, share all but name,
That ‘like they are, we say
For this I cannot but conclude
That when it comes to me
Naught else, I think, could be construed
Than that I rhyme with thee
8/14/2023 – a haiku
The leaves are rustling
Listen closely to their words
They tell Earth’s secrets
8/12/2023 – creeks in a storm
I hunger for
A meaning
I hunger for
That filling up
Of me
That electric truth
That rides along
Every artery
Like a million creeks
In a storm
8/11/2023 – solemn and low
In drizzling rain I feel the mud
Squeezing between my toes
The thunder rumbles overhead
And drops run down my nose
Such music as the atmosphere
Casts to the world below
Is more than I could write or sing
Notes solemn, and so low
8/10/2023 – a haiku
A flower opens
Gives color to all the world
And asks for nothing
8/9/2023 – with you
A moment
Is the briefest second
When I gaze in your eyes
Yet a moment
Is a long lifetime
When I wish it to be
A happy lifetime
With you
8/8/2023 – treasure
If I could walk beside you e’er
I’d do it without thought
For you are like the very air
Treasure that can’t be bought
A Poem A Day 