Some poems of a common thread

I want something from this air.
This night air.
This day air.
This clear, sweet, dewy refreshment air.

I want it to be more, more than it is!
More than a scent, more than a sense!
Experience! Joy! Power!

Fill my lungs, O sky, with a jubilant levity, an effervescent piety!
I drink you in, in and in and more and more,
it is nothing more than it can be, nothing more than it will be,
and I am sated only with longing.

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Silhouette hay rolls along the field,
Night drive by shoots down past.
Looking left, a sense
with no words,
no tapestry I can weave,
no tale I can spin,
no thing I can really create;
My words are held together:
with chewing gum and sticky tack,
band-aids, too.
wobbling, wavering, worthless!

O that I could paint this sky,
so warm and wet,
fuzzy stars blinking sheepish through dim lids

Sunsets, Please: My Favorites

Here are some of my favorite sunset photos I've taken. If only I had more. Feel free to comment with your own photos if you'd like.

SMU, Meadows Building, Hillcrest side, April 2007

Plano, Texas 2005

Plano, Texas 2005

North Galveston Island, Gulf side, July 2007

Lake Ray Roberts Campsite, December 2006

Galveston Texas, Bayside. July 2007

A Cold Weather Poem

Tonight my breath

Sings icy, silent rhapsodies

To the stars:

Who glow, doleful and blue,

before the moon's magnificent, beaming face

I drink in the night air

which flows down my throat

in frosty rivulets,

shivering my heart and

numbing my lungs and

making my fingers burn like candles

The Man and the Sky

Sorry. I can't put my story here anymore. No one likes copyright infringement, right?