~{}~

All that we see in dreams is gone

the moment we awake

The night shift of the mind is done

 .

When we dream, reality is none

and wide awake, forgotten is the dream

But for one moment it may just hang on

.

The colours of the nightmare

~{}~

Your hand is a curious stranger on my skin

This teasing finger

 is making a perfect circle on my back

You write your name under my neck

I feel your breath and close my eyes in trust

that you will

~{}~

How can I see myself in you

When you reflect my pain but not my soul

Am I to play another part or role

Than to be myself and true?

.

What can reflections really do

But show the outside of the complex whole

And not the depth, the

My youngest son was returning from California, where he had been for a year as an exchange High School student and I was going to meet him from the plane. After a journey  that had taken me half the day in tropical hot weather,  starting with a

~{}~

the cured invalide

throwing away his crutches

the toddler letting go his father’s hand

the last bird in the nest

that feels better

underneath the mother’s  feather

getting pushed out

rhyming  was my comfy grandma bike

time  now to ride a unicycle

look ma, no rh

~{}~

even dozed off

he is in remote control

he is glad if I make a big issue

out of his small matter

he is a man

in general

~{}~

~{}~

Remember those days of nostalgia

How we loved flea market treasures

And bread from old bakery’s

What a great time we had

With  rented movies in black and white

Listening to cd’s of old Vera Lynn recordings

And I wore that grandmother’s dress

But the nostalgia is gone

alto

~{}~

At her age of eighty five

it is a miracle to all

The fact that she is still alive

As  every week she  risks a fall

Thursdays she hangs out of her bedroom window,

to clean the outside of the glass

She has not fallen down yet, good

~{}~

you took the ferry  without me

and didn’t talk about returning

separation, an indifferent  sea

while my heart just kept  on yearning

I couldn’t be with you

and sunshine didn’t  comfort me

the way it used to do

as with you I longed to be

~{}~

Shall we give in to long lazy loving

Shall we give in to sun struck romance

Fingertop striking your face and your neck

Shall we dance

Let’s give in, shall we

Shall we give

And never look back

Let’s give in to staying in bed

Let’s give

~{}~

Don’t go silently away

Please let me know

in advance

that it’is  time to silently say

that you go

But promise to be back one day

if you have the chance

Silently go when it’s time for our eyes

after they’ve said all their soundless goodbyes

Silently

~{}~

Will you be the last lover

the one to hold me in my hour of fear

will you be the one then

to kiss away the pain and,  if any, a tear

The white curtains moved

when the window was open

the breeze from the sea