Dear World

When I am awaking,
half in dreams,
I feel most peaceful.
Then it seems
the world is rushing
oh so fast.
I pause to make
the moment last.

First stand and say
I'm one with all.
I am arrived, behold today!
I'm free, and safe,
I look around.
I'm solid me
on solid ground.

And oh that moment lasts
so long, I've time to sing
a thankful song.
I thank you all beloved ones,
and thank this precious day.
I thank the home, my body,
I thank the milky way.
I think of those I most can help
and what I want to do.
And now I'm ready to go out,
I want to live with you!

Trees in the park

This heady scent of eucalyptus 

must be that of Mount Olympus.

Oh ye gods so far away

in time and space, beyond the fray,

You seem to have your troubles too.

Yet here on earth, so far from you,

I see the heaven in my days.

Sip the nectar, count the ways

My life's replete, so full of joy,

out strolling with my girl, and boy.

counting

I tried to count the spots
on the giraffe, down at the zoo.
But every time I got halfway,
one spot would look at me and say
"you counted me already,
didn't you?"

I tried to count the wrinkles
on an elephant nearby.
But each wrinkle had a wrinkle
and the lake beside her twinkled
to conceal even more crinkles
from her feet up to her eyes.

I tried to count the stripes
upon the zebras in the grass.
I started with a black line first.
It split in two and then dispersed.
Now should I count the white?
alack, alas!

I tried to count the teeth inside
the hairy lion's jaws.
I sneaked up close and I met trouble
and so retreated on the double
as he reached out and stretched
his sharpened claws!

I'm all done counting at the zoo,
I'll find another way.
The monkeys threw banana peels,
The kangaroos were not genteel.
I'll try again, perhaps another day.