Feeding Nature

Feeding squirrels

I’m reminded

How clever nature is

And how clever

I am not.

Coward

I am, it seems

A coward

To my own fate

Except when

A bumper sticker

Tells me different

And not to believe

Everything I think.

The Boys Who Left Town

There was no hope for us then

We were already too far gone

Gone from where? Neither could tell

But going gone, regardless.

Spring

Watching bees

Grass is green

Spring is here

Spring flowers

Now with the Ides of March gone

There lies only dead leaves

Dead fruit, dead doves

And Spring flowers.

No reason, No pain

I don’t mean to sound defeated

It just always hurt to try

Knowing there’s no meaning

In waiting out the night,

So I take my lashes willing

Under this starry sky

Knowing there’s no reason

Or pain to justify

Her Beauty Unfolds

How lively and cruel

Mother Nature can be

How honest her birds

Who chirp Chickadee

Her hawk soars majestic

Through winds over sea

Her beauty unfolds

Without you or me

Many Monsters

So it’s back to the mountain

Where monsters go not to die

But to live among the many

A Separate Peace

All we get

In the end is

Our own

Separate Peace.

Picking Petals

Strange,

to only feel necessary

when you aren’t any longer.