Summer Raindrops

Every summer-raindrop dreams

Of scented air and gentle winds

To guide a flight o'er tree and hill

Toward the peaceful woodland pool

Whose surface bears the tranquil rings

Of raindrops sunk in secret springs

Ripples spreading, overlapping

Joyful drops from heaven falling

For this purpose they were born

Summer's gentle raindrops fair

Yet while in flight none pause to guess

Their chance of landing - there

It's falling now, the summer rain

On roofs and roads and from the drain

The softest whisper to my ears

Of raindrops turning into tears

Rice Christian Geese

Rice-Christian geese
Professing to reverence man
Attentive to hand
That may throw or bestow
Neglecting to graze
Fearful to lose
Least portion of sacred dough
There is none
Faith abandoned
Into the grey go they
In the final moments of day

Spaces

Can anyone claim to understand
The pain in the heart of another man
Hear his clumsy words
But don't presume to know
Because the words he does not use
Are the ones that show ...

Our words tell half a story
When spoken like we mean them
But more by far is understood
From spaces in between them

Be careful what you say
Your intent will find a way
To fill the spaces in between
Revealing what you really mean

Don't protest "I didn't say ..."
When spaces give the game away ...