See And Feel The Wonder
Leave me in the cool tall grass
With my back against a tree
Tilt my head back a bit
Put soft brush beneath my knee
Put my hands atop one another
For I have the need, you see
To see and feel the wonder
To repose beneath the tree
So journey on…Don’t look back
Think no more of me
Just leave me in the cool tall grass
With my back against a tree
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Most sought After...Least received
Soft arms wrap around you
In friendly warm embrace
Gesture without words
A smile upon one’s face
No charge…no love lost…
No obligation, no reservation
Freely given, no fee or cost
Warm reception, no hesitation
Not asked for… yet freely given
Rush of sensation, so warm, so snug
The most sought after thing…(for me)
is a warm friendly hug
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A freudian slip (who nose?)
I want to clear this matter up some way
And at the same time make my point
That love note I sent you the other day?
The one that got your nose all out of joint?
I think I simply typed too fast
And didn’t say what I meant to say
Not …“I like your huge, turnip nose”…
But “I like your cute turned up nose”
Was What I really meant to say
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Turned-up nose
I want to clear this matter up some way
And at the same time make my point
That love note I sent you the other day?
The one that got your nose all out of joint?
I think I simply typed too fast
And didn’t say what I meant to say
Not …“I like your huge, turnip nose”…
But “I like your cute turned up nose”
Was What I really meant to say
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Surf Eternal
An endless parade
Foam tipped waves
rocks battered endlessly
Rank seaweed…
dank caves
Once majestic
trees of seaweed
Now become horizontal
Lines drawn in the sand
Tern tracks imprinted
as hieroglyphs
Upon pristine
Sand Papyrus
Plovers chase the sea away
Turn and stand about
The sea returns…
To chase the terns
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Curiouser And Curiouser Still
Tremors and chills
On nape of neck
Hairs stand erect
When one’s primal instincts
Sense fear or danger
Why then, pray tell
The response
of similar sensations
When warm palpitations
Of pleasure appear
Strange…contradictory…
Responses …in the body human
Occur.. and encompass
in their most curious qualities…
Become e’en more
curiouser and curiouser
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Who knows
It was just one kiss
Just a soulful look
Just one close embrace
That’s all It took
Just one touch
Of fingertips…
Upon palm of hands
Then yielding lips
Just one faint whisper
In early dawn
A silhouette…
And then she’d gone
Destiny said “twas not to be”
Our paths never again crossed
We only found… just that one kiss
Who knows… just what we lost
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Monterey Bay
A faint tintinnabulation
of a small boat’s bell
Moored within Monterey bay
Sparse, spectral glow from bare bulbs
On gently swaying masts
Grow brighter with the dimming light of day
Darkness and fog, partners of night
On feet of black velvet
Steal up to the quay
Then the quiescence…the palpable darkness…
And salt sodden silence
Take reign over Monterey Bay
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Short And Cynical
You’ll always be short of something
You’ll always be needin’ this or that
You’ll always be yearnin’ for what you’re not earning
To be somewhere else, and not where you’re at
You’ll always have need of something
So Let’s have a thankful round of “Amens”
Because You’ll never have need of enemies
As long as you’ve got relatives and friends
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Imperfection
There’s something to be said
for imperfection
Something to be praised
in things cracked and crazed
For there’s something unsettled
That makes me feel nettled
And something in perfection
That leaves me dismayed
Give me a nick
on the lip of my cup
Give me bird poo
on my car
Give me a rip,
a tear or a stain
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