Heartfelt Thoughts: Chapters Four & Five

Contents

Mindsongs, Wayfarer

Preface

Dovetailing

Poetry in Motion

CONDUITS

THE LEGACY

DUET

THE AFTERMATH

POETIC FOOT

BROADCASTING

FLOWERS IN THE STREAM

THE KILLING FIELDS

POSE PLEASE

FREE VERSE

GNOME SWEET GNOME

SPARK IN THE DARK

DEW UNTO ME

NONSENSE

OUT OF TOUCH

A MAN OF THE CLOTH

NEIGHBORS

HARE IN HUTCH HIDING

THUMB TAX

A RISING STAR

THE FLIGHT

THE RIGHT STUFF

ON GETTING MY HEAD TOGETHER

HEMLOCK TIMECLOCK

MEN OF GOD

NO RHYME OR REASON

IT’S NOT WHAT IT’S CRACKED UP TO BE

TIME OUT

MONSOON’S TUNES

WEED GREED

THUNDERSTRUCK

WATERSHED

THE WELLNESS CENTER

VERSE VERSUS

QUEST

ONE BLT PLEASE

LUST FOR LIFE

LAST CALL

MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE

ENIGMA NUMBER ONE

THE NAME OF THE GAME

ACHIEVEMENT

SHIRLEY-ISM NUMBER ONE

ENTITY

UPPERS AND DOWNERS

AN ENTRY INTO PROSE, NUMBER ONE:

THE RAPTURE

CORNY THOUGHTS

PUT IT UP FRONT WHERE IT BELONGS

THE DIE IS CAST

ON COMPLIMENTING OTHERS

ROCK AND ROLL

THE WISHING WELL

PRUDY’S POEM

HOW CURIOUS?

NOISE POLLUTION

EMBERS

SHIRLEY-ISM NUMBER TWO

FROM THE GROUND UP

LOVE CYCLING

SHADES AND SHADOWS

HUMORESQUE

ENIGMA NUMBER TWO

THE EXCHANGE

SUNDAY DRIVERS

TALES OF DEFEATS

LIONS’ PRIDE

THE BEGINNING

Lifesongs

Preface

Sculptured Bureaucrat

The Geometry of Things

Ins and outs

Dimensions

Nightcrawlers

Outpost

The Call of the Wild

The Words are in My Mind

Metamorphism

Nightlight

Game Plan

The Uplift

On Speaking My Mind

On Making Idle Conversation

December Sunset

Tapestries in The Sky

Enigma Number Three

Viewpoint

Fiddle-Faddle

Venture

A Good Day’s Work

Hark ! !

Exclamation points

Poppycock

‘Tis Nice

Apathy

Get Up and Go

Disabled Fable

In Tents

Seventh Heaven

Prime Rhyme Time

Call To Colors

Clowns

The Other Side of Tomorrow

Forsooth

Passing On

And The Past is before Me

Just a Rhyme

Wrong Way, Corrigan?

Enlightening Conversation

Whither thou goest; so shall I

Windward

The Reason

An Entry into Prose Number Two: The Hope (revised)

Lighthouse

Frozen in Time

A Day in the Life of a Pickle

Star Trek

Ripple

Whispering Down The Valley

It ain’t over until the fat lady sings

Just Another Rhyme

Love Letters

On a May Day

Songs of Life

Take it from the Top

Oh The Laughter – Oh The Pain

In Other Words

Will of The Wisp

Perception

Tidbits

Paper Flowers

Coming Out Party

Serenity

XX Rhyme

A Chink in the Armor

Fast Track

Middle Ground

Swan Song

The Beginning

Mindsongs, Wayfarer

Chapter Four

Preface

What is really interesting is the fact that through three books of poetry, I can still find enough material to continue writing about traveling through the mind. I suppose and hope that this ability will go on for a long time.

Poetry is still being written with the same casualness and ease. What I have also found is that my architectural design has come to me much more freely and a solution to a problem is more readily attainable. That is excitingly satisfying. Now one form of creativity seems to spark the other.

I have dedicated this book to the guy in the mirror. I don’t really know totally who he is yet, but the image is becoming more and more clear with each passing day.

Please enjoy this, the fourth book, as much as I have enjoyed creating it and now bringing it to you.

Dovetailing

I sit reposed

with fingers clasped

and intertwined

receiving thoughts

to fingertips

and soon the words

begin to gel

and all the pieces

happen to

come together

forming

interlocking

beginning

a creation

of heart and mind

and when

the task

is complete

I’ve become

the better for it

Poetry in Motion

flame flickering and dancing in cozy cabin fireplace

gull soaring and swooping before the sky’s blue face

meteor shooting and slashing across inky night space

motions leave one awestruck of nature’s amazing grace

surf pounding and thrashing upon the rocky coastline

springbok gliding and springing over the lea so fine

hummingbird darting and hovering about the columbine

rhythm of graceful motion shows nature’s poetic sign

cloud drifting and changing patterns in the azure sky

swan floating and sliding white regal head held high

swallowtail alighting and flitting, lovely flutter-by

thru motion poetry, nature’s miracles thrill the eye

CONDUITS

Pipes convey liquids

Ducts move gases

Wires propel impulses

. . . conduits of energy

Vessels convey blood

Tubes move oxygen

Fibres transmit messages

. . . conduits of life

conduit all your energies

and your life

will take