Sunday, February 23, 2025

Buck up Buttercup

We started the evening as strangers though we left a little less so.
You'd be surprised the things you'll find, if you take the time to know. 
The rolling stone's eroding, though it cracks a lovely tune.
You'll get just what you needed, but there ain't no silver spoon.
 
I see myself a cowboy on the lonesome western plains,
allowed to sulk in sorrow, seeking pity for my pains.
Now I break mystique so quickly under a flash of wit and charm
and I'd trade the plains so quickly just to have you on my arm. 
 
Why the back and forth of the rats run 'round the maze?
If all is said, from born to dead, in a single locking gaze.
There's a lifetime in a moment, if we only make the time.
The mountains aren't an obstacle when you say you love to climb.
 
I'm bucking up on buttercups; barrel down the path again.
Chasing falling stars under the helping hands of friends.
I hope the hope is worth it like it's rarely been before;
the buttercups are blooming and there's only time for more.

Sunday, February 16, 2025

What Beauty There’ll Be

In life, in life, what beauty there'll be!
The mountain top snow that melts to the sea.
The forests regrown from scarred and burned land;
the rocks and stones crushed down to the sand.

It's static this change and it lights like a bolt,
o'er canvas of marvel where beauty invokes.
A splashing and swirling abundance of wonder,
it flashes like lighting and crackles like thunder.
 
Kinship and friendship and most of all love,
these are the drippings of paint from above.
And still more amazing are the wonders unseen
connections of lovers like the magic of dreams.

What beauty, what beauty, what beauty there'll be!
hands interlaced like the roots of a tree.
Shall it grow wide and shady or up to god's light
no matter its stature, it's the sight of all sights.

Be as the mountains, eternal and bold.
Be as the forests, and live as you grow.
Be as the desert and shift with the times.
and always see beauty, for the sun ever shines.