Steel and Stone

Theres moss between flagstones

theres ivy on the walls

For insigbts won through tools

and tears

I pause beside this door

Is there no joy in the busy street

The bulbs are protected from the

frost against the winters return

Standing in the wings ... more

To Forget

It is more than memories of amorous

flesh

To recall the right and forgive the

wrong

To forget the thing that binds me fast

in frost or damp

A king of toil

From the clang and clamor of cities

strife

I will cease to stand complaining of ... more

Passing Hours

Hushed are the stars whose power

is never spent.

To feel the fog in my throat and the

mist on my face.

I dont seek for money and fame and

ambitions point.

This place will alway be just home.

Slipping through the fingers of

restless ... more

Dust

I nourish a blind life in my mind

to the whole earth in everyway

The power in the sun glows

To remember the joy of a dark

autumn night and a full moon

I cant tell tomorrows spell

In the song a lyric of colored

hues

One with all the sense or ... more

Northwestern Song

What is the lure of the northwest song

A fierce unrest at the core

If I have wanderings in the wilderness

Im just a smear under the cloud-filled

sky

What is the song that rings so clear of

all existing things

I see it not or hear its thunderous roar ... more

Im In That Side

I stand in that side

The air is cool

Yet in the house things

full of beauty blow

If the rest of the road is

half as good there awaiting

is a double crust

Blind and tormented angered

and alone

The doors are in the temple

snd the ... more