Here are a few poems…

Sprout dharma

The plant just reaches for sky
It doesn't ask why
It won't begrudge you picking its fruit
Cutting its leaves or pruning its shoot
When dry it withers
In rain it greens
But all it knows
Is there's light so it leans...

And reaches and drinks
From what nourishes most
The water and sunshine
And smelly compost
Its purpose is pure
From the seed to the weed
To emerge and to grow
To bloom and to feed

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One For The Whys

I don't live by that kind of logic
That leaves a man's pockets full
But his soul empty
Having never seen over the mountain

I do not wonder "What if" from here
I have tasted the wind
I have felt the rain
Not just gotten wet

This I know...
The turning point is far, far
Far beyond the point of no return

If sense holds you back
That is fine
If you don't understand the quest
That is OK
Go back and be sensible
In your safe decisions
Where your future awaits

But don't for a minute pretend
That going around the mountain
Will give you the view
Or turning back from it
Will leave you wiser
Merely because you avoided failure
By avoiding the bigger odds
Of the bigger dreams of stirred passions
Where another's destiny calls

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And song lyrics to one off of the All Things in Their Time album…

Uncertain Times

I am not a preacher just a pilgrim on a path
Onward to whatever’s down this road
And I would never promise that my way’s the one for you
Not knowing what it takes to ease your load

But may we both look back
From some distant better day
And with all respects paid all
We ever lost along the way
See the best in each other
In these uncertain times

I wasn’t born a winner - I have stumbled to this hill
And it is but another of its kind
We all got here from somewhere - we’ll get somewhere else from here
I may die climbing for what’s left to find

Or maybe from the top
Looking over what has been
With no way to go back
Only to begin again
See the best in what happened
In these uncertain times

Find the best in each other
In these uncertain times