year end

Christmas gone. again
and the New Year begins to shoot its piercing rays
through fog and smog and yesterday.

No more unwrapped gifts
and it's much too soon to guess or ask for next year
though soon enough to give and be.

The snow white cover,
winter's gentle blanket, tucks away the past,
becomes the new and better day.

So Now It's Spring

Fall was in a hurry,
and Winter rushed right by
so now it's Spring, but swiftly so
for Summer's nearly nigh.

hurry! see the Blossoms
quick! catch the Morning Dew
the little Lambs born yesterday
will soon be Ram and Ewe.

hold fast to fleeting Innocence
and Leaves of changing green.
wisely prune the Princess Plant
and train the sapling Queen.

thanks giving

It's thank, thank, thankful day,
with the people you love
. and a pumpkin pie.
oh my!

It's thank, thank, thankful day,
with laughter and love
. and a pecan pie
oh my!

It'd thank, thank, thankful day,
with prayers full of love
. and a cheesecake pie
oh my!

and so much more than turkey

Real Autumn

Margaret who was grieving
Over autumn trees unleaving
This is your season, this is mine.

Winter follows after
Autumn's lingering laughter
And no, I go not softly to the night.

Though roads diverge I yet will go
On icy trail, through paths of snow.
Look up! I dance with Northern lights.

never say never

never get excited and make grandiose plans,
no matter how fun, no matter how grand,
no matter how much you want to make them
because the more effort you put into these plans,
the more they will come to naught.

never make small and happy plans
because your head will use them for an alarm
and start the headache, right on schedule.

never think of things you really want to do,
just for fun,
because something else will happen,
prohibiting the spontaneous moment.

if you insist on optimism, on dreaming, on planning;
if you think it will all work out,
it may,
but not the way you planned it.

be ready for the derogatory comment
if you continue to hope,
continue to plan,
continue to look forward.
be ready for people who never.