“The Ivy of My Life”
“The Ivy of My Life”
1/20/2000
From the moment that I sprung
My path was laid out fair.
So I grew up toward the sun
And followed fresher air.
But life will always change
As you grow around
Love, and hurt, and happiness,
And tears that drench the ground.
Following a different path
Then people gone before;
That’s the way the ivy grows,
It’s stronger through the storm.
Life will flow, and with it change
To thwart the path that’s planned.
Grown around a different bend
Has put me where I stand.
The ivy of my life is growing,
Stretching far beyond.
Maybe it’ll grow beside
A different kind of pond.
The ivy of our lives
Shows the gates we’ve climbed,
Which effect our state and growth
More than space or time.
Rising up to sometimes fall,
Being trimmed to keep in line,
Being watered, stand up tall,
And sometimes cut by lies.
The ivy of my life
May take some harder paths,
But in the end I know I’ll say
I’m glad at where I’m at.
“Learn from My Mistakes”
“Learn from My Mistakes”
1/27/2000
I’m sifting through the ashes
Of memories that I’ve lost.
I’m picking up the pieces
Of my life from off the floor.
I’m trying to remember
The feelings of your touch.
I try to open twice
That locked and bolted door.
Wait a minute.
I’m trying something new now
From off the books of ruin.
I’m growing love and life
In the ashes of mistakes.
I’m learning to apply
The art of vase creation,
And I’m loving someone else
Cause I learn from things I break.
“Leaving the Hills” Sonnet 35
“Leaving the Hills”
Sonnet 35
1/25/2000
Saddened faces carved in ice
That coats the window.
They’re leaving from the place
They’ve all known to grow.
Fun carved on from first time to last time
Till they heard the “time to go!”
College students too can whine
As they pile through the snow
Into buses- sardine cans.
Some slept, others wrote
About the smiles in their hands
And songs created in their throat.
Now all that’s left is sleep
To live again the scene.
