Not Half-Not Whole (+3)

Where would the leaf be

without the branch

 

The cowboy drifting

without the ranch

 

Where would the wave be

without the sea

 

Its motion unformed,

adrift unseen

 

Where would a song be

without a voice

 

A silent concert,

a barren choice

 

And where would you be

without your soul

 

Condemned to matter,

not half—not whole

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2018)

 

 

Day Into Night

 

Trains are romantic,

airplanes are not

 

The prepared speech pedantic,

‘a song lyric caught’

 

Your eyes have to choose

between vision and sight

 

Or your spirit transforms

—changing day into night

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2018)

 

 

 

The Eternal Flame

 

Grandchildren

—life's fountain of youth

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2018)

 

 

 

The Deepest Well

 

Emotion,

the capital of poetry

—in currency of what you feel

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2018)