Earthly Creatures

 

Earthly Creatures

We are earthly creatures

Marked by life

And slowed

By death.

We are lifted

By love

And downed

By reality.

Our lives

Are long walks

Through deserts

Interspersed with an oasis or two.

Friends are roses

Blooming along

The gray roadsides

That we stumble upon.

And families

Are usually people

That start out as friends

And end up as strangers.

Such is life

This thing we must do

As we search for meaning

And solace in the storm.

If true love comes

It comes as a surprise

And like children, we, without thought 

Rip open the packages.

The roads wind through mountains

And our eyes are darkened

By tears and rain and loss

And brightened in the moments of sunshine.

We are creatures

Like no others

We are not animals

No matter if we live like they.

We are men

Who walk upright

And seek to rise

While falling down.

And if, at the end of it all

We are counted worthy

To be adopted by heavenly creatures

We will adapt, though it will be hard, to joy.

©by Voo

05/10/08

1:24 a.m. 

                                                             Sometimes When It Rains......

                                                                       by Secret Garden
                                                                     please play with poem.....

Dances With Birds

 

Dances With Birds




Standing in the kitchen this afternoon
Wearing nothing but a white cotton T shirt
That barely covered the imagination
(It's 116 in the shade, dammit!)


I was making a chef salad
And pouring myself a tall glass of lemonade
When from outside my window
I heard the scream of a bird
So loud and startling I almost said a bad word
What on earth was that? I thought
And finished the slicing and dicing,
Wiped my hands and pulled back the curtain.


The bird stood there on the driveway
It's wings held up in the air
In a kind of ecstasy
It's head raised up to the sky
It's little feet doing an impromptu
Crazy birdfolk dance
Paying no attention to anyone or any thing
It screamed again, not a bird sound
(Definitely not a bird sound.)


But then I noticed that all around the critter
Fell big fat liquid drops of rain
Rain! 
Real ThankGodAlmightyLetItRain rain!
Like we haven't seen in weeks
That we've needed here more than gold.


And I realized
That the bird was screaming in joy
Pure unadulterated joy
No one will believe this I said out loud
But who cares? 
I dropped the curtain,
Took a big long drink of lemonade,
Looked around to see if the neighbors
Were watching......stepped outside....
And joined him in the dance.

Too Hot by Kool and the Gang


©By Voo
Aug 20, 07
4:30
based on a true event

It Feels Like Rain