Regarding love and commitment…
Into My Life
I must wonder how
Such joy came into my life
But must let go now
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This Road Is Not Abrupt
Celebrating life…
This Road Is Not Abrupt
Young and sweet she reminds me
Of so many young people that I have seen
Full of life and verve
Not jaded by all that has not yet occurred
Ambition
Full and ready but still somewhat dismayed by the pending decisions
Demanded by life
In this time that is so rife
With change
Of grand implications and extensive range
I can remember those times
Of high excitement and wondrous worry in attempting to define
What I’m to be now that I’m to be grown up
In the midst of sipping from life’s overflowing cup
The question sparkles within her eyes
And here spirit flies
Upon the winds of this quest
The adventure that’s borne me all these years now confessed
No, this road is not abrupt
What will I do when I’m finally all grown up?
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Tons of Rocks
Of the fight…
Tons of Rocks
Ten times over the bridge that day
Signs banging then the road dropped likesome tons of rocks
Cars and trucks were tumbling and fell like they were blocks
Sliding backward time to pray
And jump
But the driver cracked
His spine when the landing jarred
His back hard
Then had to be strapped
To a stretcher and carried out in a painful lump
The passenger was able to stray
getting out and looking around he took stock
And found two trying to get out of a car that looked like a crushed box
Helping them out together they walked away
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From – Bridges Don’t Falls Down: Stories from the I35W Bridge Collapse
Air Nor Blood
Of the fight…
Air Nor Blood
Was a panic tap
Neither his air nor blood cut
Was his will got smashed
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Missed But Still
Regarding love and commitment…
Missed But Still
How did we miss each other?
Both looking for what a partner could not guess
Being human we often fail this kind of test
But being human and in love we’ll continue to bother
To try
Of ourselves we will demand
Because love is more than just the good times
And even in the discordant moments that don’t rhyme
We will do it again and
We’ll cry
Then try again because we care knowing the pain can’t smother
The ever deepening love to which we’ve both confessed
Something neither of us would have ever guessed
Missed but still with each other
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Dancing Swirl
Of love and commitment…
An excerpt from…
Dancing Swirl
Too old to want advice
Too young to know it’s still needed
Determined regardless what I pleaded
I pray there’s no high price?
My little girl
That I used to hold in one hand
A little bundle I’d cuddle and rock to sleep
Her happy cries of glee when I came home would greet
My notice her antics did demand
She was a dancing swirl…
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Bruce Renewed
Of redemption…
The Bruce Was Renewed
The Earl of Pembroke pursued
Robert’s band
While The Bruce desperately devised a new plan
But there remained that ill omened action he still rued
Wasn’t the killing itself
But that it was done upon holy altar
So Bruce paused by Tyndrum at Strathfillan past Loch Tay
Kneeling before the Abbot of Inchafray
Absolved once more for the sacrilege at Greyfriars
Robert’s spiritual health
With the mantel of piety was again imbued
At the shrine of St. Fillan
Of Glenlochart. There on ancient holy land
The Bruce was renewed
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The Work of Heroes
Common Heroism…
The Work of Heroes
The school bus carried our most precious cargo
Hanging on the edge
Of a precipitous ledge
And all we could do watching was hope it wouldn’t go
Down
And into the deep
Beyond the reach of even our best
But there were those that came forward to prevent that test
And did what they could to keep
The kids safe and sound
The children could not end up below
Hoping to dredge
Them up and out. No they couldn’t go over the edge
It was the work of heroes
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From – Bridges Don’t Fall Down: Stories from the I35W Bridge Collapse
My Anchor
Regarding Love and Commitment…
My Anchor
She is my anchor
This I absolutely see
And my grasp upon reality
Without her my very soul is in danger
But for now
I remain safe because she holds me
Loving her with all my heart hoping I am as good
As she makes me want to be. My anchor has withstood
Tides of fortune pulling free
But somehow
Has not let go and still holds my soul safe from danger
In the beginning captured by the beauty
That grows still deeper I see
Her soul is my anchor
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The House of Canmore
Contemplating History…
The House of Canmore
When Robert was young Alexander III was king
Scotland was at peace
With the security and wealth that can bring
The house of Canmore had ruled for some two hundred years
But without an heir in sight this line might cease
Robert the Competitor had been chosen to steer
As King Alexander’s father’s successor
To the crown
But when that king remarried under pressure
Alexander was born as the royal heir
Now he also cast around
For candidates but he too remarried fair
Lusty as he was
The realm expected heirs soon
But the kingdom’s hope vanished one day because
Of King Alexander’s penchant to do as he’d wish
On a whim he rode out from Edinburgh. On a night dark with no moon
Riding the coast road in a storm’s howling hiss
Fell from the cliffs to his doom
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