Loneliness

Sparkling dots of iridescence   
Poke through quivering leaves, 
Daytime stars forming   
Ever changing constellations

The sultry breeze would tell stories
Of ten thousand summers past
If I could decode the secrets
Nature whispers in my ear

Black cat and blue Jay
Play tag around the elm tree
Neither wins, neither loses,
Life dances with itself

“Mr. Squirrel, I’m lonely,
Will you share a glass of Rose?”
I swear he shakes his head ‘no’
As he scampers off around the corner

So I sit alone, but not so much
Loneliness is all in the mind
I share the stage with a million actors –
Both human and not

If I could but open my eyes,
My ears,
My heart

And listen.

Sunbeams

Sunbeams play in shades of grey
In dancing shadows on the floor
The tenuous stillness of early morning
Not long to lie undisturbed,
I sip my coffee and drift & drowze

Thus begins another day,  
Life chugs on in its unremarkable way  
Tinkling notes of a “Fool’s Sonata”  
Express themselves in endless variation  
On a nonetheless recurring theme  
 
Say it once, say it twice,  
The fool never listens to sage advice  
Hypnotized and mesmerized,  
He waltzes in Time to sonatical echoes,  
Momentarily amused, oblivious, unrealized  
 
Blind man on a sinking ship