Do You Yet Believe In Magic?

I do… am willing to believe in

Anything that will help me to live

Help me to get through daily life

And the madnesses that Yet

Lurk Therein. So Yes, yes Lord,

I do Believe in magic, just as simply

And honestly as I do Believe

In God Himself.

//With Due Diligence is the

Simplest and most complex accomplishments

Can be achieved. To Start with

A simple step, (in any direction), can

Begin the journey of your life,

Thy Destiny.  The answer lies in

Taking the next step, and another step

…Before you know it, you will

Actually get somewhere.

The simple trick is,

To Keep On Walking!

In Jesus’ name,

Amen.//

Fruits of the Earth Good to Eat

Water-Born, Sun-Born,

Earth-Born and Wind-Blown

Blooms of Rich Flowers

Shake Dew Droplets off from

Their Weary Heads

Creeping Things are Busy Now

Sense and Sound Captivating

The Mind.//

Boiling Potatoes in a Pot

Dicing Them Into Pieces

Adding mayonnaise mixed with

Touch of mustard and vinegar

Mixing and serving plates

Of Potato Salad To Theodore.//

In a land of Fairy Tales

One Wishes To Be Beautiful

But Youth Is Brief and Fleeting

Older now I Find New Comfort

In Solitude.  Quiet Hours

Spent in contemplation leads One

Writing poetry soothes the soul

There is so much I don’t

Understand!//

White Lace Sheer Dresses

Wanting to run into the sea

Sea Shores Are So Gentle To Us

Loving its Children that come

To The Tide’s Feet, the edges

Of the Ocean!//

Pleasant Life in Long Days

No Need to Worry of Hurry

Days of Solitude are blessed

Thought is a way of finding

The Divine.//

Hot Mugs of Warm Tea

Soothes the belly and the soul

Relaxes Wrinkles and eases

Tension.//

A Splash of Cold Water on my face

Reinvigorates me waking up quickly

Spiny Nettles Callus The feet

Walking Barefoot across the

Meadow, A Singing Mockingbird.//

Koi Fish Drowsily Hovering Within

Placid Pools of Liquid Water

Like Misplaced Dreams

Or Sleeping  Hopes Lying Therein

Subtle Koi Expressing

The Listlessness That

We All Feel!//

Simple Joys of being Alive

Nodding Away into deeper sleep

Drifting Away on a Current

Of dreams; catching the current

And cascading softly into the

Chasms of cool deep sleep.//

A Lonely Day

No One On The Empty Streets

Stealing glints of Sunshine

Hiding away behind

Lock Doors and Gone!//

Fishes Worrying Still Waters

Willow Branches Tickling Surfaces

Blowing Carelessly in Gentle Wind.//

Billowing Starch White Wind

Filled Sails, Tethered By

Strong ropes drawn into

Thick knots, Catching wind and

Sailing across the Pond.//

Empty City Streets

A Bit of Trash Blows About

Feeling lost and Abandoned

Yet Also Free!//

Sleeping Heroes must not

Be Awakened, They Dwell

In The Chambers of their Sleepy Homes.//

Life Goes On Sweetly

Rushing Water over Some Stones

A Finite Creek of Trickling Rainwater.//

The Beauty Of A Running Horse

Thy Mane Flying Wildly

In The Wind, Thy Husband

Blows into the door!//

The Biting Horses Eat Apples

They are eating Oats and

Sleeping in Barns Soft with

Hay.//

Brushing a Wildflower against

One’s cheek, Spring Comes Softly

With the Warming of the Sun.//

Meadow Grasses Blow and Sway

In the Unbound Wind Like

Mother Nature’s Cascading Hair.//

Humbly Born You Were, My Child

New Baby Leaves Emerge From

The Branches of Trees.  Thus Came

Thee in little swaddling clothes.//

Light of Sun Plays on Heart and Mind

Spring shoots up through thawed earth.//

//You Make Love To Me With

Madness and fever, losing all

Self control.  I see a glimpse of

Infinity when you move with

Me to an echo of our souls

Getting lost in starlight we are

Suspended Forever In These

Moments.  If Time Stopped

In the middle of it one might

Glimpse our Love and The

Power of our Love for Eternity

Our Love is a Light in the Dark

Our Love is Guiding Us Home

Making Passionate Love in the

Dead of the Night, I realize

I am not alone, for you are

With me, now and for all of

Eternity!//

Losing Self Control

Press Yourself Into Me

Life has just this meaning

A Riddle of the Ages

The Love is deeper than

Oceans or time

My love and thy love are shared

And completed in this union

You are my best friend and

The Love Of My Life

Although we get older together,

We Grow Closer With passing Time

As memories are formed together

You and I will never die!//

“To Theodore”

When we are alone in the dark

You Hold Me, I Hold You

All that’s passed speaks for

Itself, when the day is done

Good Hearts Snuggling under

Cover of darkness two good

Hearts, yours and mine…who

Could ever ask for more?

If God took the breath from

My lips, it won’t matter

Anymore because the past

Goes back seven years and in

That heaven of life loving

One another, I am treasuring

Every instant with you

Theodore my husband!

Marry Me!  Love, Caroline.//

“Even If I Die Tomorrow”

To Theodore Land

Even if I die tomorrow, my life

Was spent loving you

The love we slow-burn

In the dead of night

Is a thing to worship

And pray to, you and I,

So even if I die tomorrow,

Our Love Will Have Endured

Our Love Will Remain

My Legacy, My Poetry, will

Live on. I am at peace

We can retire now, Theodore

It’s going to be the

Rest of our lifetimes to enjoy

The fruits of our labors.

So even if I die tomorrow,

We Won, Theodore!  We Won.

I love you my husband.

I hope we live on into old age,

But all I ever wanted was you!

We Won! 

In Jesus Name,

Amen!//

“To Theodore”

I Honestly don’t know if we’re

 going to get by every day

gets harder and harder

at night I press my

cold cheek to your warm back

and just hold you, loving you,

absorbing your body heat

I love you Theodore I’m not

Afraid, “For Better Or For Worse”

They Say.  “In Sickness and in health”

They Say.  “For richer or

For Poorer” they say.  Well I’m

Glad I married you and I have

 no real regrets we have done

 our best.  I don’t want to know

how incredibly hard and painful

our life together is; I know it is…

My love for you, Theodore, is my

Only Salvation.  God May have Forsaken

Us, yet still you and I Have

One another’s love, and in our love

Is hope, and in that hope is

Some kind of future, however

Hard it may be to get to.

I am grateful for your faithful

Steadfast love.  Where would

I be without you?  I’d rather

Be in hell with you than in

Heaven with anybody else

But you.  I love you, madly,

My precious husband,

Love, Your Wife Caroline.//

Life Tenuous Now

Spring Peeks Her Head Out

Of Dry, Lifeless Sod.

Sadly I come bearing water,

To Water my More Beloved Trees

Their lives Precious to my own

I water them daily now.

Weeds quite special

And beautiful, wild natural wiry

Fresh, green weeds!  These, too

Are the children of God!

Most People don’t have the time

To stitch pants holes or scrub

Counters or draw or water trees

They don’t even have time

To play with pet hamsters!

I do have time, and

I do these and other things.//

The calligraphy is being forgotten

They aren’t teaching it to

Young Children Any more

Computers Becoming Slave Gods,

Immortal and Susceptible to water

O!  A Power Outage!

Ne electricity would bring

Anarchy, rage and fury

Among the people

My fellow humans!

They live off of electricity

Like plants live of water. 

Even I.//

In Jesus’ Name,

Amen.

“Woman, Do Thy Work!”

Woman, Oh Woman, do thy work;

Know thee art the lifesource of

A little world! A home for

People, plants and animals!

Woman, do the work that

Only you can do now!

Keep your house alive!

Live for thy husband!

How much he loves thee, is

Beyond anyone’s understanding

Do thy work, and live thy

Tender little life, Woman, that

Thy Husband stays alive!//

I thought, “O Woman!”

Thee might wait for him all thy

Life, yet Peace!  For Look! Thy

Husband loveth thee madly,

As a child loves its mother

Or the sun loves the moon,

Thus his love never fails!

Constant, Pure and True, his Love

For you rages in the lantern

Of his little frightened heart!

Oh Woman, Do Thy Work,

Work, and live!

For thee dost love him

And Thy husband loveth thee!

Oh Woman!  Do thy work, and wait!//

Oh, What is a home, a home O?

What is a home to a lamb?

The Mother keepeth the home

The wife waiteth for thy husband

Strength of heart and perserverance

And thy husband’s love each

 Night, holding him in your arms!

Oh Woman, Do Thy Work!

Jesus Knows the Satellites

In the skies that orbit thy

Tiny home!  Such with Hope,

Even hope itself, that frail

Little flower, the still small

Voice, guiding thee and

Drawing thee near, even as

A guiding Star to sail towards

In darkest of night and fathomless!

Thus with thee! Follow thy

Heart which loveth Theodore

And he alone.  Watch and wait!

Oh Woman, please do thy work!

In it is the hope of the world!

In Jesus’ Name,

Amen!////

If they say anything of me

When I am dead, let it be,

“She was a good and loving

Wife all her life!”  Amen.//

The little mouse trembles

Alone in the darkness, nibbling seeds.

What hope in this world for a

Tiny Pet Mouse, But Me Myself?

Without thee, there’d be no mouses,

No mouse, no garden, no trees!

Why, the very earth might rest

Upon thy stubborn shoulders!

Oh, woman, do thy work!

In Jesus’ Name I Pray,

Amen.//

He loves me with all

Of his heart.  And that is enough.

Amen.//

“I’m looking for myself”

If I Don’t come home to you

For a little while later, I will.

I’m out in the World,

Finding myself all around me.

Pickingg up shards of my

Broken heart is one thing.  It’s done.

Now to repair that heart which

Is broken, however I may heal—

Food heals my heart, flowers

And hugs heals my broken heart

Long talks on the phone

Walking to the laundromat

Wishing on a Still Bright Star

Holding Theodore in darkest night

Hearts Break and I am healing

I must be careful with my heart

I try to heal it and it bleeds

Springs another leak I cry

Poetry comes forth from heartbreak

And sorrow doesn’t it, then so

Shall I spring forth new creations

Of myself.  I need to meditate

I need to cry and sleep well

If I am not home for awhile

I am in life, out looking for myself.

Beautiful pieces fragments of me

I see in everything around me

I need to clear my head for awhile

I’ll be home and in your arms soon.

In Jesus’ Name,

Amen//

I saw myself in a puddle of rain

And in fresh linens from the dryer

I saw myself in a rose blossom

And not in the rose’s thorns.

I saw myself in the heaves

I saw myself in animals’ eyes

I saw myself in pools of water

And in the tender little vine

Lifting for the light of day.

I saw myself in a crashing wave

And in my soulmate’s eyes.//

Be at Peace!  O Ye Daughter

Of God.  Amen.//

The Night is Vast and Dark

Be not thy heart consumed by it

Like Evil, all darkness must pass.

Do not despair and be not afraid

For you are wonderfully and fearfully made!

Tend Gently thine humble flock,

Protect thy child Theodore,

Love them all with love unconq-

-uerable, love them with all of

 your heart! But you must not

despair, Jesus Christ is ever by.

The Holy Spirit filleth thee even now,

Though thee feelest all alone.

Tend thy flock, and keep thy

Humble home!

In Jesus’ Name,

Amen.//

I am Not alone…

My God is with me!

Guiding and Comforting, all the way.

Amen.//

Theodore I’ll die for you.

Let the anger pass over you

Like an ocean wave capsized

By the heavenly stars.

And the moon.  Oh, Moon!

In Jesus’ Name,

Amen…

I wish you knew how it felt

To feel a sense of pain

I wish the ching would release;

I wish that night’s oppression

Would cease

But like all mad and scary

Things, this too shall pass!//

Theodore, How Much I Love Thee!

So much I cannot say.

I plucked the Sun and Stars

And Moon from Heaven, Down,

And Hung them above thy

Pillow where thee sleep thy

Sleepy sweet head; that

Thee could look up at

Heaven when thee art sleeping!

In Jesus’ Name,

Amen.////