Parade on TV
Cranberry sauce cookin’
Aunt Lalla’s wet kiss
Mom in the kitchen
Football hoots and hollers
Too many vegetables
Crawling under the table
Dad carving the turkey
Crowded table
Mom, I need more soda
Grandpa telling stories
Pecan pie
She got more than I did!
Grandma helping clean up
Really tired
There once was a turkey named Tom
Who lived his whole life on a farm
Thanksgiving was here
He ran without peer
And avoided coming to harm
She walked with me
and then I turned away
Embers
Ocean storm
Moves the clouds
My boat sails through blustery seas
Rough waves cross my path
And cause me to change direction
Your love
Moves my soul
My body walks across the windy shores
Guilty memories cross my mind
And I run away
only tree in the wilderness
two lonely birds call it home
three times they have met
strangers
your thought of leaving me
is an earthquake that shakes my world
many apples fall
i am hungry
i crossed the sea
following your voice
and found you
in a desert oasis
kiss me beneath the one tree
cherry blossoms
a subtle surge of spring
flowing from the ground and sky
into color and beauty
and my eyes
Evening at the lake
The streaked red clouds hide the sun
I cannot follow you over the horizon to your home
Where the clouds are white and the sun is high
Our places are disjointed
Our time is fragmented
Our love is stretched
Beyond my heart’s shadow
Beyond my sweet whispers
Beyond my loving dreams
Soon your sun shall hide
And mine will be gone
Every night, my dreams stretch out to touch you in your dusk
But you have moved on
To your dawn
With clear skies
the wind drives down the mountain and blows me off course
first one way
then another
the summit is in sight
but i can’t see you anywhere
i tell the wind it cannot dissuade me from my path
you are there
you are there
but the wind drives down the mountain
and does not hear
i’ve heard nothing from you as i look towards the summit
your voice is lost in the air
scattered in the winds
diffused in the updrafts
diluted in the vastness of the sky
the wind drives down the mountain
i stand my ground and guard my directions
i kneel and face towards the summit
my legs are stone and my spirit hardened
i close my eyes to remove the distance
i close my ears to the howling lies
i will not believe the wind
never believe the wind
you are there
you are there
i know that you are there
Your love is distant
I cannot see your eyes
Your heart took the open road
To destinations unknown
I’m stopped at the crossroads
Where I cannot feel which wind to follow
If you look back, beyond the horizon
Know that I am waiting
On the desert pathway
I see you beyond the next road
But it is another mirage
Your love has sped down the gullies
With the last rain storm
I wait for the clouds
acorn falls
soil catches
tree
heart falls
you catch
us
a moth does not see
leaves make a tree
you do not see
hearts make love
don’t wait until autumn
Follow the river
Build your camp by the ocean
Horizons are there
We go our own way
Here and there, we make a knot
Pull on my heart strings
Wayne L. Miller 