Mon, Jan 23rd - 1:26AM

The Navigator

Chaos dwells out there,
  and like the deep, dark
  ocean beyond the blue,
He has a tide that ebbs
  and flows
 in a timeless pattern
That is outside any man's
                    paltry understanding.

Copyright © 1979 Lyle Melford Miller

Mon, Jan 23rd - 1:23AM

Origin and Return

Flow gently, deep waters;
  ignore the winds of change.
Let mankind, blue oceans,
  your ways not rearrange.
Smite therefore, white breakers,
  Insolents on the beach.
For ever, life bringer,
  death also you must teach.

Copyright © 1980 Lyle Melford Miller

Thu, Jan 19th - 3:40AM

Tumbleweed Beach

At first glance my will was gone,
And I was living in a lovely song,
'Cause your eyes seemed so warm to me,
I saw love stretching to eternity.
In love again, I'm alive again, it's time again.
    Like a Tumbleweed on the Beach, rolling unreined and fancy free,
   Where all I've got to do is reach, this loving world around me.

With my toes planted in the sand,
Your silken hair flowing through my hand,
Love's laughter always sang to me,
Some soft song of the whispering sea.
My dream of love, your touch of love, my goddess of love.
    My leaping heart finds no bounds, rolling along across the sand,
   To the love I hear in the murmuring sounds, and that which I see in this fantasy land.

My mind's eye has set me free,
Broken rules, incessantly,
To've put you there, right by my side,
As we took our mounts on a moon-lit ride.
In the surf, not two, it's love with you, please see us through.
    Warm and alive, the wind carries me; you are everywhere and again,
   I know the meaning of ecstasy -- where your smile takes me way back when.

With its glow, like the setting sun,
Your countenance now my heart has won,
And fleeting, though, as it may be,
Our love has forced my soul to see,
I'm Blowin' again, on my own again, alone again.
    Drifting time, tumbling through my mind; fading footprints of memories shared,
   A life of lost love, I now must find, in a barren desert, alone again and scared.

  Please -- can you tell me:  Where is the laughing sea?

Copyright © 1983 Lyle Melford Miller

Thu, Jan 5th - 3:35AM

One Caged Man

The man in the cage,
What a sophomoric sage!
He sits and he dreams all day long.
But the man who's been penned,
A short message can send,
To his belle in this his young love song.

And he cares, oh so true,
Like a ram, for his ewe,
Yet the stars, how they trouble his soul.
For it crosses his fate,
'Cause alone, not with mate,
He must reach for his heaven held goal.

So he says with a sigh,
"'Tis alone I must try,
To make this grand bid for the sky.
For if I should fail,
It would be no avail,
To fall on your shoulder and cry."

So alone he does stand,
With a light in his hand,
That light, it is knowledge and truth.
Yet his eyes, they are blind,
For he 'lone cannot find,
That beauty which fled with his youth.

Copyright © 1979 Lyle Melford Miller

Tue, Jan 3rd - 11:37PM

Jungle Queen

Lithe, black coat flowing
Over rippling muscle,
She awaits her prey.

Copyright © 1981 Lyle Melford Miller

Tue, Jan 3rd - 11:36PM

Be mine

Sincerest of friends,
Most sympathetic of all,
Be my Valentine.

Copyright © 1981 Lyle Melford Miller

Tue, Jan 3rd - 11:36PM

Above the Clouds

With hearts aflutter,
And wings in the azure sky,
The songbirds fly free.

Copyright © 1981 Lyle Melford Miller