Life Won't Pass You By - summer

Today

is the kind of day

when life doesn’t pass you by,

if you sit still

it will send you things

and you don’t even have to try –

a warming sun

a gentle breeze

the calming sounds

of bird call and trees –

resist the urge to jump up and go

for only by staying

will the blessings flow.

fireflies-summer

Fireflies come and go

first they're hidden

then they glow

rising, falling

dreamlike state

fantasies while I'm awake

Summer Solstice - summer

the climb from a valley

to a mountain peak:

the time from winter solstice

to summer's pinnacled week-

from there the daylight stretches

to both horizons sunlit shores

not obscured like winter's darkness,

deep within a valley's floor.

Here the human soul rejoices

standing midst created height.

Let us never be descending -

keepers of this flame of light.

To commermorate D-day 70 years ago - spring

The brightest and the bravest

went off to war,

there they killed each other,

now they are no more.

Maybe that is why this world 

seems so very wrong,

those who chose to take a stand -

are gone.