"The Dog is in the Window"

The dog in the window
Is looking out to see
What needs to be bark at
Maybe you and me
There is no rhyme nor reason
Why he would bark at us
Unless his stash of barks
Needs to complete his fuss
Saliva and steam on the glass
Showing his teeth for a scare
Leave us in laughter
A very happy pair
The dog in the window
Knows all he needs to know

"Are You There?"

If I can't find you anywhere,
Where should I go to look?
In the first kiss you gave me?
In the first kiss I gave you?
In the first place you said,"I love you?"
In the first place I said, "I love you?"
In the first promise you made me?
In the first promise I made you?
When you said,"I do."
When I said,"I do."
When you stopped kissing me?
When I stopped kissing you?
When you stopped telling me you loved me?
When I stopped telling you I loved you?
When you broke your promises?
When I broke mine?
In broken hearts?
In the hands of time?
Are you there?

"Prayer"

Prayer is for all
Who seek the best
Answering the call
Finding the quest


Help is there
Whenever in pain
With burdens to bare
Will surely gain


Prayers move God's grace
On stars in the night
Into hearts and souls place
Making them right



Pray in good times and bad
Open your heart
Make you soul glad
Pray it's a start


Prayers have been kept
From the first ever said
And from heaven swept
To even the dead


Recycled they are
The worst and the best
Coming from afar
And given the test


Answered for many
Who seek and find
Receiving plenty
Of every kind



Go about being kind
Praying for those in need
Leave the devil behind
In evil and greed


Seek not the world'e wealth
Find God's healing grace
Look inside yourself
It's God's special place


Finding God's way
Where your answers lie
Is where he will stay
Until the last day


He's waiting for all
At heaven's door
Not for a fall
Forgiveness and more


Prepare yourself well
Do the best you can
Avoiding Hell
Is the right plan


All is well
You can see
Your not in hell
You are still with me.

"Love"

Your love is my pocket
Saved for another day
Time will keep it safe
Never to go away


Foolish girl of twenty
Love was easy
Slipping through my fingers
All I ever knew


Now at middle age
It's in different wrap
You may not find it now
Nor feel its' gentle tap


Love not alone
Solemn and denied
Love all with gusto
French fries and pie


Loosen your belt
Tighten your tie
we are all shoppers
Look love in the eye

"The Race"

The future wonders
Our everyday race
Hardly stopping
To take a breath

Words on cellphones
Mostly filling
Numbing our thoughts
To weariness

Blindly searching
Strapped in our cars
For more to do, to say, to have
Absorbing are being

Knowing the race has answers
Filling us with emptiness
An overdose of life
We do not know how to see

Afraid to stop
To see ourselves
When the race ends
At the finish line

"Ladybug"

Ladybug, ladybug
How do you fair?
Here in the cabin
With our loving care

We welcome you here
To eat what you may
You bring us good cheer
We think it's ok

At night you are quiet
By day you are clean
We are not on your diet
You couldn't be mean

Stay with us forever
And leave not a trace
We think you are clever
Please keep up your pace

You deliver your pleasure
And seek no reward
You are a treasure
An A you have scored

'Formlessness"

Sliding through your mind like liquid silver,
Falling towards the unreachable sureness of shape.
Longing to belong
To that which the eye can hold
And the hand can feel.
Never finding sound
Nor finding the end of falling.
Smelling the death of a wish,
Beyond your reach.
Hovering in space, searching eternity
For the answers in the shadows
Surrounding you in your thoughts, hearing the screams
That steal you from what you know will last.
Pleasing only those who find the formlessness
And have learned to hold it in their hearts,
Until time ends the search.
You know you will reach the touch of all,
Love, loneliness, faith, hope, peace, mercy,
Joy, fun, forgiveness, praise and time
Never finding their form
As they pass from you to existence
Riding the moons beams,
The suns rays,
And the wind.
For them the alpha and omega.
They can only be.
Attached to nothing.
Like you and me.