A Place Beyond

A Place Beyond

A wish into a willing well

Takes me where the fairies dwell

Where mermaids swim beneath the swell

And centaurs bend to let me ride

To a magic place where I can hide

Uncertainties that roil inside

A place other creatures cannot know

Where conjured, creative inspirations grow

And art, writing and dance all flow

This is our blessed heritage

Creative heart our inheritance

Artistic beauty the evidence

We are not trapped by present time

But travel on whim and song and rhyme

To the place where spirit dwells divine

A magic region unfit for fools

Blessed are those who use the tools

Discovered when imagination rules

Greetings from Carmel

GREETINGS

   from Carmel

Home through the door

I hear running

then there she is

eyes shining

wiggling and dancing

her body bending and sidestepping

then leaping to give me kisses

Voicing soft little moans

of delight

of missing me

Her hair soft as marshmallow

tickling my face

Her tongue rough and quick

Then she runs off to find a treasure

Something special to show me

And prances back with pride

Dancing again with her offering

My smile is spontaneous

As are my endearments

I kiss her back

Rub her ears

And sometimes scoop her little body

To hug her close

And all the time

Her pom-pom tail is wagging

Ticking back and forth with glee

No one else greets me

With such abandon

Such enthusiastic adoration

And I know I'm blessed

Ladder Against the Sky

I leaned a ladder against the sky

Dreamed that I could climb so high

Greet the birds in wing-spread flight

Count stars flung across the night

Beneath me a blue-green mystic orb

Light and life and dreams absorb

Daring me to greet the stars

Flirt with Venus, laugh with Mars

Visit all our solar kin

Fly to our sun and bask within

Universes we can't comprehend

Neither beginning, nor cosmic end

Shakes our imaginations free

To wander with eternity