I dreamed of Plymouth by the Sea

I dreamed a dream I never dreamed
In a land I've never been
When once in Plymouth by the sea
Pilgrim spirits bade unseen

Haunted shadowed plymouth nights
With silent moans of pilgrim plight
those ancient cold December nights
From harm they sought to hide

Dire in need their wits contrived
Searching merely to survive
The silence remembers still
Their numbing freezing chills

By a stone strewn brook her statue stands
Caped and capped pretty pilgrim girl
And I wondered while seeing her there
What deprivations were her share

What eloquence blessed her rest
While wishing her memory blessed
Unmarked graves on the little knell
As waves below rose and fell

Their joy so raggedly worn
No stars on high did warm
These are the thoughts I dreamed
Where now the gabled moonlight dwells

Yet knowing someone truly cared
Meant more than all the Earth
And some for certain were received
By God beside that lonely sea



(copyright Dec. 14, 2004)
























TRUE LOVE STORY

LORD you know life is  not easy
For a lonely old guy like me
Sailing clandestine seas
What a waste of amazing grace
playing blame games
LORD you are a jealous God

And I was made in your image
Build me a hut near a mountain top
Where I'll not hear their mocks
And threatening thoughts of Hell
Spare me their thoughts of Heaven
Descriptions of Gehenna

Let them not speak of Heaven
I wish only to be forgotten
From this mess I never sought
Shall we not  be forgot
From life wearing plots
Sojourning through time

To find a cabin by a lake
With God  and  choirs of Angels
And the innocence
We wish we'd never lost
The palaces of kings are built
On the ruins of paradise

  HAIKU NOIR

Life is a killer
Like a Boeing built bomber
High over Dresden

Never force yourself
Into someone elses life
Wait for an invite

Those extra somethings
Can be very hard to find
Like pearls of great price