I DID NOT DIE

DO NOT STAND OVER MY GRAVE AND CRY
I AM STILL ALIVE ---- I DID NOT DIE
I AM THE MOUNTAIN TOPS FAR REACHING MAJESTIC VIEW
I AM A PEACEFUL MEADOW SPRINKLED LIGHTLY WITH DEW
I AM A COLD WINTER SNOW'S DIAMOND GLISTENING WHITE
I AM A SPRINGTIME'S BLOSSOMS ALLURING FRAGRANT FLIGHT
I AM THE WHISTLING WINDS WHIRLING HIGH WANING LOW
I AM THE AFTER STORM'S ALWAYS PICTURE PERFECT RAINBOWS
I AM THE TALL, WAVING GRASSES ON THE WIDE ROLLING PLAINS
I AM THE MERGING FALL COLORS ONLY AUTUMN MAY CLAIM
I AM THE MANY RIVERS SEARCHING FOR THE SWEEPING SEA
I AM THE DESERT SAND'S SILENT, SOLACE, SECLUDED SCENE
I AM THE BILLOWING CLOUDS ON SHEER BREATHTAKING HEIGHTS
I AM THE VERY DISTANT STARS THAT SPARKLE IN THE NIGHT
I AM THE TRIUMPHANT ARRIVING SURF RUSHING TO THE SHORE
I AM THE OCEAN'S EXPOSED TIDE POOLS WAITING TO BE EXPLORED
I AM THE SWAYING TREES WITH RHYTHMIC, RUSTLING LEAVES
I AM THE LONG, HOT SUMMER'S COOLING EVENING BREEZE
I AM THE PRE-DAWN'S PAUSING STILLNESS, QUIETING HUSH
I AM A SUNRISE'S SUDDENLY REFRESHING, SMILING BLUSH
I AM A MELTING BROOKLET'S PATIENT, TRICKLING FLOW
I AM A SUNSET'S GLORIOUS FADING VANISHING GLOW
SO DO NOT STAND OVER MY GRAVE AND CRY
I AM STILL ALIVE ----  I DID NOT DIE

THE TEMPEST AND TRANQUILITY

SEA BIRDS IN A TEMPEST SEEMINGLY WITHOUT EFFORT
SMOOTHLY GLIDE AND DIVE OVER A TORMENTED SEASCAPE AS
BURGEONING WAVES CRASH AGAINST TOWERING, ROCKY CLIFFS
ON A COLD WINTRY MORNING

THE OCEAN'S POWERFUL THRUST SENDS SALTY, MISTING SHOWERS
HIGH INTO THE AIR BARELY SKIMMING THE UNDERNEATH, SYMMETRICAL
FORMS OF THESE ACROBATIC CREATURES OF THE SKY

THEY TEETER AND BALANCE ON MOTIONLESS WINGS WITH GRACEFUL
ATHLETICISM AMID UNSEEN, STIRRING CURRENTS OF WIND AS IF IN
A BREATH TAKING, CHOREOGRAPHED BALLET BY NIJINSKY

STORM DARKEND CLOUDS BACKGROUND THEIR SILHOUETTED FLIGHT
ABOVE THE SEA'S THUNDEROUS ROAR COMPLEMENTING THE CONTRASTING,
DIMINISHING, HIGH-PITCHED SHRILL OF THEIR VOICES AS IN THE
SYMPHONIC, CONTRASTING SOUND OF KETTLEDRUM AND VIOLIN

AND SO IT IS ----  NATURES RHYTHMIC MUSIC AND DANCE PLAY TO
THE HEART AND SOUL OF HUMANITY - EVEN OVER TROUBLED WATERS
AND STORM TOSSED SEAS THERE IS A BEAUTY, THERE IS A MAJESTY;
THERE IS A REVERENCE AND IN THE ROARING, TURBULENT, OCEAN'S
INFREQUENT LULLS OF CALM THERE ARE EVEN THE FAINT WHISPERINGS OF
PEACE AND TRANQUILITY.

TRACES of TRACY

This Poem was Written by Grandpa Jack.....it is about his Sweet Beautiful Daughter who passed away at the Age of 16 of Cancer.

TRACES of TRACY

The Fallen Petals From a Rose

And Who of Us Even Knows

When the Fading of a Blushing Bloom Begins

Dropping Softly to the Ground

Where One by One Each Petal Found

Drying to a Whithered, Paper Thin

A Deeply Hued, Crimson Red

Color Spots a Garden Bed

Complemented in a Rich and Loamy Soil

Contrast a Fainting Fragrance Still Intact

A Fading Flower's Listless Slack

Was In the Eye of The Beholder Worth the Toil

Nurtured by Warm Mother Earth

To Sustain Another Coming Birth

A Beautiful Rose Indelible upon the Mind

Each Petal Falling Like a Tear

To Await, Again, Another Year

And my Saddened Soul Awaits Another Time



Great Poem

CHANGE

A Change of Heart

A Brand New Start

A Change of Mind

A thought Refined

A Change Avowed

A Promise Now

A Change is Claimed

A Patience Gained

A Change to Cope

A time for Hope

A Change of Scene

A perception Gleaned

A Change of Vision

A maturing Wisdom

A Change to Cease

A Soul's Release

A Change for Love

A Forgiveness of

A Change To Feel

A Spirit Healed

Interwoven

INTERWOVEN

Under Tones, Over Tones

Voids in Space and Time

Subtleties and Nuances

Puzzles without Rhyme

Colorless Hues of Gray

A Fog, A Misty Shroud

Thoughts of Past and Present Blur

Caught up in the Clouds

Silent Stares from Deep Set Eyes

The Slightest Touch Remembered

A Gentle Breeze Turns a Leaf

Sensing it's September

Letters Written Long Ago

Now Read with Silent Tears

Words on Paper Understood

In Years Past Never Clear

Strangers Passing on a Street

Another Time Best of Friends

Eyes Meet, Lips Smile

Never to Meet Again

Blazing Sun in Silence Splashes

Into the Depths of Ocean's Womb

Quietly the Dark Descends

Awaiting the Cool, Ballooning Moon

Currents Weaving through the Mind

Searching For the Heart

Two Ships Passing in the Night

So Close Yet Far Apart

Diverse Opinions Freely Given

Differences by Degree

Discerning What the Truth is now

Only Perceptions Guaranteed

Memories Fade Soon Forgotten

Simple Answers Hard to Flex

Reaching For Any Solutions

Thoughts of Life Ever Complex

The Mind Winds, Wanders, Wonders

Through all the Nooks and Crannies

Exploring Creases, Cracks, Crevices

For any Clues - Are there Any

Undertones, Overtones

Voids in Space and Time

Subtleties and Nuances

Puzzles without Rhyme



THE GIFT OF LIFE

THE GIFT OF LIFE

Breaking Waves Roar

As Sea Birds Soar

Thru the Crisp, Salty, Ocean Air

Sand Crabs Bury

Themselves In A Hurry

Submerged in Sand's Satin Glare

Sea Weathered Shells

With Sea Stories to Tell

Exposed, Buried Partially in the Sand

Some Beautiful, Some Broken

Ocean's Leftover Tokens

For a Collector's Necklace Strand

A Seaweed Torn

From where it was Born

In the Depths of the Ocean's Floor

Once Gracefully Majestic

Now it's own Tangled Skeptic

Rolling Helplessly onto the Shore

Yet Life goes On

Ocean's Horizon Beyond

Blues and Greens Shade to Black in the Night

The Tides Come and Go

Rise then Ebbing Flow

Where Creation Breathed its First Life