Through the trees, opaque 
billowy pillows, splash on 
an azure canvas, sailing furiously, 
beyond my view.
        
...
    
        I move my pen across
the parchment, sometimes with 
such precise strokes, 
proceeding without
        
...
    
        A dark gloomy scene 
fills my window pane
a cool breeze blows 
suggesting rain
        
...
    
        The time was not right, 
is it ever, you had
your life, I had mine, 
infatuation, maybe, maybe love.
        
...
    
        That fateful day in
September, fear surfaced
For a nation, once again.
        
...
    
        fills my senses
browns, oranges, yellows
meld into the sky, a
back dropp for this
        
...
    
        Bombarded by worries
of money and time
maybe my dream needs
to be put on hold
        
...
    
        her silken fibers worn by the wind and rain  
cling to her feeble shoulders  a painted facial 
tautness grainy as parchment screams for the sun’s 
sweet rays  her smile beams brightly  clover among
        
...
    
        Many years have past since 
I’d been a gung-ho youth of fourteen
Vietnam had been a child-like fantasy of 
glory and honor cradling me proudly
        
...
    
        Nothing matters 
when happiness alludes  
not the environment 
not peace  not family  not
        
...
    
        The revolving strobe of the lighthouse 
dances brightly  against the rocky coast  
and out of the salty surf  rises the rough
rigid rocks  from beneath the waters
        
...
    
        I’ve been lucky to
have lived two lives, 
one for money and the
other for me.
        
...
    
        Constant murmur, 
drowning the chatter
of the children, splashing
in the pool.
        
...
    
I first started writing on a trout stream and haven't stopped yet...)
                    The World Outside My Window
                    
                    Through the trees, opaque 
billowy pillows, splash on 
an azure canvas, sailing furiously, 
beyond my view.
Trees bending, each limb, 
each branch, separately
shifting, everything dusted, 
by a cold white blanket.
The hard rust road, 
emitting bits, pieces, 
translucent, behind the gray
dismal trees, now empty.
A picture, it’s beauty, a mere
landscape, unknown to all, 
framed by my window where I work, 
each day, composing, my words.
The sun breaks, the silence, 
momentarily, revealing itself, 
another frothy foam drowning
the expressions of light.
The green needles of a lone pine, 
dangle, high above, scooping up
the rays of the sun, 
today, there are few.
Sounds of motion, rush by, 
swoosh, invading
my senses, suggesting 
movement, contour.
Another cloud seizes the 
sun, insinuating what 
will surely come, 
maybe not today, but soon.
Cold, moisture falling, 
again, from the sky, 
clouds, delivering white starlets, 
multifaceted inhabitants.
Cumulus, like trees, dropping
their unneeded luggage, 
as though aging, as a man 
losing his youth.
Today, I understand, 
the world outside
 my window, a fragile old world, 
that’s getting older.
                

 
                    