ON THIS MORNING

Painting by Robert Louis Williams, Jr.

On this morning 

awakened to

salt sea air

crow’s call

gull’s cry

trees’ breezy dance

A balm of soul calm

In sense symphony

Of sea, sky and meadow

Amidst human chaos—

On this morning

TWILIGHT

Sounds, thoughts

Images like holographs

Memories flourish

Faces, feelings

Fade into longing

Regretting, forgetting

And you here

Only a moment in millennia

 

Step over the threshold of IF

Hear leaves whisper in the wind

See birds on the wing

and the starlight in so blue sky 

Longing to stay, but it is twilight.