Singing River I often read great poetry Then first cry out a woe is me I can never seem to attain to such beauty Such wisdom So dark disdain is born from comparison An offspring I need to cast in the river – Here I stand on the shore The river in motion Quickly heading…
Author: songsfromtheriver
I'm a poet, a photographer, a physician, and a patriarch who loves the great outdoors and all of the beauty it shows us. I live in a great valley between the mountains of Northern California, and I love it.
The Voice
A blast from the past. Something I wrote seven years ago that I thought I’d share. Hope you enjoy 🙂 Voice I dream of days, I dream of ways Where I do not have to enter into this incessant wandering This amassing of graves between worlds of reality and fact And the realms of reality…
Unless the seed….
Unless the seed… Remember your passions First I have to find mine Those things that made me come alive Now are dead and gone It isn’t age that’s passed me on It’s living life itself – I found this book upon a shelf Just sitting there, dusty, old Yet still it had life deep within…
Raven
Raven For so long For far too long I have dwelt amongst images Ghosts Imaginations of my own making Without a voice Without another opinion And we all got along just fine But after all these years I see this wine Has been poisoned with the art of sorcery A deep magic has consumed my…
In the Beginning
In the Beginning If one is supposed to write what’s inside Then how does one write emptiness? How does one write vacuous? How do you write nothing and void? – It seems that is what is always at the beginning – The greatest power hovering, hovering Humming, singing Music is always in the midst it…
Life Signs
This photo It reminds me of our now Dark Clouds Leafless trees BUT Blooms Color Life Life is coming Nothing can stop it I see the signs – I see the signs of hope above – kdc 5/17/20
Figure 8’s
Figure 8’s I wish I could write something Anything Anything to make a difference Anything to lighten the load But nothing I do really matters Nothing I say changes anything It’s not words that transform our lives It’s love And I’m fresh out of that There was a rush on it during the pandemic The…
Quantum Leap
Quantum Leap What’s the universe expanding into? When I go to its edges Climb out a window Open a door What will I step into? What’s this all for? Where will I be? Who will I see? – Will time be there? Gravity? Stillness? Or rowdy celebration? – What’s the universe expanding into? What is…
The Short (completed)
The Short (completed) Some want to give me an answer Some wish to Tell me what’s so But I’d rather live in the present The place of “I really don’t know” – This place is where I can go higher This place is where I am just free This place is where I live from…
