Chase Chase beauty and it will find you Give out love and you will find it Watch the palm trees sway in the autumn winds The change of seasons is coming , as it always does, And everything is new again – Stop trying to measure the meter Stop trying to match the rhyme Stop…
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 Races
The Races I sit on the back porch Night Cool breeze stirring in its freedom The crickets chirping all around me An occasional change in their rhythm Rarely a change in their rhyme The waxing moon rests above Saturn in her gracious clutches Peace, tranquility, good This is the realm beyond time – Off in…
Life’s Essence
Life’s Essence We think we’re so smart Yet we really don’t even know what life is Sure you can boil and pipet You can microscope and experiment You can hypothesize, theorize We can discover Oxygen, carbon dioxide, glucose Neurons, mesons, electrical processes DNA that tells us everything Fourteen complex reactions for every photon Processing it…
Resilience
Resilience Everything beautiful about you Has been cut to the ground The lines of the years now show on your face You feel like you are just one small disgrace In a great big universe of order and shadow But I see something I see where everyone thought you were dead Yet you are alive…
Daughters
This is dedicated to my daughters, who I am trying to raise so that they know they are loved, they are beautiful, and they are magnificently wondrous. They are a treasure simply because of who they are. This is for all the girls and women out there who need to hear that you are truly…
Anniversary Haiku
Anniversary Haiku Marry me again, Love Everything you touch, beauty Our Love forevermore Broke the rules again Eight instead of seven there Freedom is magic Marry me again, Love All you touch turns to beauty Our love forevermore A true haiku kdc, 6/26/19
Dead Amongst the Living
Dead Amongst the Living I’m no longer writing poetry I’m not sure why I sit here on the front porch Looking at the sky And that is all I do These thoughts are many These thoughts are few I just don’t know who I am anymore Stillness can be heaven Stillness can be hell And…
Rain in May
Rain in May The biggest lesson of today A day of rain and cold and quiet Is to enjoy Yes, it’s the midst of May The time of sun and warmth and flowers and green Yet Those things aberrant are often the very things we need To see our lives in a whole new way…
Grape Vine
Grape Vine I guess it’s good for your work to outlive you It’s good for your DNA to travel on Sometimes I’m not so sure what to focus on Build and work, work and build Live and love, Love and live Maybe it’s all a both and an and I keep coming back to that…
