CONTENTS

I. Blooms

II. Thorns

III. Weeding

IV. Fields Afar

V. Harvest

I. Blooms

Redemption Winging
Here
Child Of Earth
Contentment Is A Lady
In Awe I behold
A Stride Ahead
I’m a Butterfly
With A Kiss Of Jasmine At Dawn
Song Of April
A Dragonfly Sits Upon A Cattail,
Bunny Yawn
Sunflower
Standing On A Tree Stump
Random Acts Of Kindness
Our Vision
White Horses Ride
When Dreams Were Reality
Summer Portrait
In A Sudden Hush
True Love
Counting Sunbeams
We Wove Tales
Love Of The Written Word
Jinni
When We Stood On A Mountain
One Afternoon In Montana
I Go To Meet The Beaming Day
I Thought You An Angel
Magic Days

II. Thorns

Garden Of Dreams (Prologue)
Fast-Falling Night
Ode To Grieving Poetry
I’ll See You Tomorrow
Helter-skelter
I Cannot Say Just Why She Left
Forgive Me, Teacher
Farmer
The Fall Of The Walnut Tree
The Strongest Man In Town
For You
The Nature Of the Beast
Miraculous Fire
Shadow Of The Sun
As It Burns Up My Days
The Khan
Who Made Fleas?
The One And Only
The Storm When It Comes
The Bird Sits
Time
In Our Cold Cells
The Only God Around
The World Moves On
Leave Me Ecstatic Pain
I Wish To Think
Prayer To Spring
I Don’t Want To Know
Where He Has Gone
They Hint Of Peace
House
Winds On The Acropolis
Ballad Of The Persimmon Tree
Ghost From A Wishing Well
Haunting
Hearts
For The Living
The Sleepwalkers
The Face Reflected There
On The Eyes Of Those Who Reminisce
Snapdragons Blooming In The Bower
Something Nice To Say
Acumen
Anvil
Panacea
Rekindled Fire
The Subtle Song Of Rain
Thorns On The Flowers
To The Smallest Victory
While Will Prevails
Give Me Will
 

III. Weeding

Ghosts Whispered
The Sky Today
Why?
As Big of Fool as I
At Forage
Do You Think You Can Tell?
The One Truth Of My Invention
A Million Years More
Through Innocent Eyes
Evaluation
Truth’s Hue
Beyond the Velvet Lie
When I Threw Off My Blighted Shroud
Harbor
Fortune Cookie
I Seek Alone Untarnished Truth.
For which The Ancients Yearned
Alone I Fear
Unashamed
The Concept
In the Aftermath
Misconceived Notions Of Right
Do I Have Your Attention Yet?
What Did You Do for the Universe?
Disposing the Time
A Measure of Wit
The Baseball Witch
The Mighty Chief of Timberoo
So Sure Was the Leader
Who Will Soothe Her Aching Feet
Fire Lake
The Dogs of War
Proud Princess Sassy Pie
Seven Souls of Santa Monica
It Must Be the Season
Promises of Glass
When You Are Wise with Death
Should Someone Learn the Lessons Gone Before
Stained Glass Images
When Chaos Sweeps Will to Obscurity
Shadows and Sand
The Quickening
In Consequence of truth
The Mold Room
Our Own Fate
Should There Follow a Kingdom
Silly Sparrows
Six Meditations in the Face of Hesitation
And in the Night
Shadows and Dust
Thoughts while Lying on My Back in a Snowbank
The Candle Burned
Echoes of Past Voices
Supplication to the Soulless Wind
Epitaphs of Alabaster
Death Smiles

IV. Fields Afar

Bonfire
Now We Wonder
Back into the Black Hole
Island in the Sea
Tell Me
You Can Never Go Back
Fading Alone
Alone
Hey, You
Riding Fire
I Muse Away
Poets Who Walk Thy Shore
I am Wont
How Drear!
Pattaya
In Resignation to Faith
Masters of Space
When Someday Through Elysium I Ride
Anubis
Sweet Harlot of Mine
When I Close My Eyes Forever
We Die Alone
To Bathe in Eternal Rain
Heartbeat in Darkness
On the Highest Plain
Tonight Is the Night for Waking
In the Day of No More Days
Echos from Atlantis
Heracles’ Final Fancy
In the Dreams of Many Separate Minds
Upon the Buxom Wings of Night
Stars and Fireflies
Melodious Notes by Moonlight
Joy Beyond Measure
I Am Content with Silence
O Peace of Night

V. Harvest

Life Is But Once
Where I Am Sown
Wanderlust
Flowers
For Creation’s Sake
Sanctuary
Cinnamon Tree
A Rainbow in the Dark
The Way She Smiled up at Me
Elation
I Raised High a Castle
The Rosen Arbor
Valentine
The Garden Beside Me
Sidewalk Cafe
Wading
On Kum-Kang Mountain
With Blooms Such As These
Behold
Before Thy Day Doth Fade
Tangerine Evening Song
Harvest Moon
Of Ghost Ships
The Strength of Your Hand
She Loved Me for a While
A Word of Love
Rhyme for Rhyme’s Sake
Genki Girl
Love Attack
Try!
The Heart Is Stronger than the Mind
Little Devil
No One Here to Hear
Dream of Peace
When My Love Says She Loves Me
A Distant Rose
Forcing Love to Earn Her Wings
Unfading Oath
A Last Kiss for Eternity
Together We Will Fly
Garden I Wander
Expectations of Something More
Time to Wake
That Far
Silence is Kind
A Poem Composed on the Slate of Never
Roses Pink
Sonnet for an Atheist
Of Tea
When You’re Old And Wise
The Four Winds
Mother Fair
God for the Day
Divining Your Endless Sigh
Garden of Dreams (Epilogue)
Now I Am Free