DID YOU EVER SEE A WHITE GULL

FLY BACKWARDS

WELL I HAVE

ON THE CHIMNEY

OVER OUR OFFICE

A GULL

MISSED ITS LANDING SPOT

PUT ITS WINGS INTO REVERSE

AND GENTLY PUT ITS FEATHERS IN ORDER

AND ROARED ITS WAY

HOME

Your singing stopped me

in my tracks

Spotted beauty all alone

on a swaying branch

Your notes combine

to make a melody

You sing for yourself

Not even the wind disturbs

Your prefect harmony

The song of your father

No cage could hold you

But bars would silence you

Your song penetrates yourself

So complete

That you Quiver

Then reach a higher note

O that my body would

Take such a tune

And hum each day away

To be in love with life

Is a lifetime love affair.

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THERE AT TANDYS BRIDGE

WHICH WAS ALWAYS THERE

WE SWAM THE WATER

WITHOUT CARE

FOR CARE IS IN THE FUTURE

STILL I WILL WAIT

UNTIL THOSE MOMENTS COME

AND I CAN FIND

LIVE THEM

WITH MY YOUTHFUL MIND

AND THIS IS WHERE I WANT TO BE

WHERE GREEN AND BROWN

BLOSSOM ON EVERY TREE

WHERE THE WOODS

ARE PAINTED ON THE LAKE

AND A SUMMER SEAT

INVITES A REST TO TAKE

AND I WILL SIT

FOR AN HOUR

LETTING SILENCE

MANUFACTURE

MY INNER POWER.

On a damp July day

Wind catching along the canal

A bright water lily

stands on the water

And I remember the daffodil

TO TAKE THOSE LAST LEAVES

STILL CLINGING TO THEIR MAKER

WHERE IS THE BREEZE

THAT TINGLES NEW LEAVES

AND LETS THEM

LIKE YOUNG LAMBS

DANCE

Don’t walk

In the place of your youth

It will have changed

And you are in danger

Of wiping it from your imagination

To be in love with life

Is a lifetime love affair.