Retirement

       What is retirement?
       Thinking of days switfly passed
The laughing, and crying-
The dreaming, and fearing?

       No, It's a new door
       Opened to life never dreamed;
A challenge, surprises-
And time to smell the roses.

Simple Things

Gray the day, and then
A song, a smile, a kind word;
A sip of cool fresh water
Drove away the gray.

After Thoughts

95.  Was ever a spring
       As lovely as this?  Ah, yes
       The heart remembers.

96.  What is man that he
       Can thrill with joy and wonder
       And praise Your name.

97.  All things great and small
       Are for our feast and learning.
       Gifts of Your great love.

98.  Clouds a-skittering
       Along a summer skyway
       Leave no tracks, -no rain.

99.  Light'ning playing tag
       'Mongst the thunderheads, and rain
       Races down to earth.

100.  Cornfields fruitless stand.
         Thunder heads explode, and rain
         Comes too late, -too late.

101.  Luscious means juicy,
         Chewy, and gooey,
         And even sounds good to eat.

102.  Speak gently, my child,
         Lest one whose heart is hurting
         Cries at night, -alone.

Look Out the Window

Look out the window.
       What do you see?
Soft pussywillows
       Buds on a tree.

Look out the window.
       What do you see?
Gardens of flowers
       Sheep on the lea.

Look out the window
       What do you see?
Snow on the meadow       
       Foam on the sea.

Look out the window.
       See what you will.
Weeds by the roadside
       Daisies and dill.

Look out the window.
       See what you will.
Mud on your pathway
       Rain on the hill.

Look out the window.
       Life passes by.
Burdens and sorrows
       Clouds floating high.

Thoughts Continued...

91.  A wave of power
       Wraps around the world, - and War
       Tries the door to Peace.

92.  Silence is a sound
       That soars across the senses
       And shields their secrets.

93.  Spring is late this year, -
       Or hiding in a snowbank
       Waiting to be found!

94.  A cry of triumph
       Rings from war-torn lands, - and Peace
       Creeps in through chaos.

Blow Wind

Blow, wind, blow
Blow the leaves away.
Blow them 'raound the corner, then
Blow them back again.

Thoughts Continued...

89.  Beauty all around
       Soaring over hill and vale
       Hiding in the grass.

90.  One tiny flower
       A vision of love
       Beauty is in the seeing.