Doggerel

Quaking in my shoes

I walk a mile in thine

Going the distance

In convenient rhyme

Take the path less traveled

Not the garden path.

Your mind is a garden.

Grow no grapes of wrath.

Doggerel this ditty

Full of balderdash

Fun to write, not pretty

Sausages and mash.

Sometimes sense is nonsense,

Chunks of broken dirt.

Dinner’s spoiled forever

So time to serve dessert.

Japan

Cherry blossom.
All hope cannot be extinguished
in one day.

Homage to Japan and Ireland

Nature a beast
A dragon of fire and water both
attacked the land.

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Verdant tree of green.
How appropriately dressed
On Ireland's day.

H20

Disguised as misty morning dew

Or deep in ice.

Bounding and bouncing from rock to rock

Or crushing sand with vicious shock,

Your roles reflect a rainbow hue.

Quenching, spurting, spilling,

Washing, foaming, filling

Floating, spurting,

Slipping, sliding,

Twirling, gliding

Swirling, misting,

Dripping, hissing

Myriad molecule

Miracle

Of life.

H20

I Am Love

I am the wild wind and the silver sea
I am tsunami and satori
I am the sturdy oak and the prickly pine
I am quake and chaos, rose and vine.

I am the violet veldt and the green garden
I am waves and rain
I am the desert dust and the fertile field
I am sturm und drang, hearth and home.

I am the trembling song and the rich refrain
I am equation and ode
I am the business mogel and the ballerina
I am agression, love, pride and compassion
I am the cog in the machine
I am consciousness personified.
I am the human part of nature

I am love.