Hey Hey and Do Si Do

Take my hand and we will stroll beside a lake, beyond a dell

Acorn dreams within our robes with many fables yet to tell..

Beyond a sheaf of murky shade, over a rocky mountain high

When quivered heartbeats strung on branches kiss the sky,

Oh it’s nigh tis nigh... 

Take my heart and we will wander through a stormy wild blue yonder

Costumed oaks in vibrant lime, fire rimmed... bears time to ponder 

Climb a wall with sturdy spirit tandem tied to scale the ether

Each and each and yours and mine and ours the teacher...

Find the yielding sandy path around the bend magenta’s lane

Find a clearings shimmered light tis here recedes the hoary rain

And there she stands wide and proud, a barn of forest’s finery

Sweetest orb lives overhead, sepia brink and peppered ivory...

Oh heady scent the kerosene to grease the bluest blackest night

And round about Bermuda hay, sunny bright Oh bailed delight... 

There’s light, there’s light... 

 Overalls and gingham threads and russet boots to dance

Do si do me wholesome fresh a dream to dream perchance? 

Looped lasso’s of loving holds in rings of rosy red

Underneath the mistletoe our curling lips to spread  

And do si do again, again, regain..... 

Gather round the bonfire now, plumes of fire prance

Ignite the ill with carrot gold and dance dance dance 

Time to hear the sweetest voices I did ever know

Never more to hang your head... low low low ....

 

Hey, hey Sunny smiles

Hey hey honey styles

Let’s Do si do and do

Do si do and do ..... 

Little Red, Rivers Thread

Little red, Little red

Rivers found a thread....

On route to pioneer the sky

Aviate your heart’s desire.

Little red, Little Red

Crimson lined and cherry fed

Take to the air

Oh blazing flare

And....love love love

Little Red, Little Red

Rivers found a way....  

Her doting sway

Winks diamond’s grace

Light’s dappled place .... 

Now  live, live, live  

Little red sleepy head

Oh lazy sweeping bends

Hop along and pop along

Chirrup your scarlet song.

Always changing,

rearranging  

velvet leaves caress her banks,  

Blossoms blush their brightest thanks

And dance dance dance

Little red, lovers wed 

Lithe and supple

Mirrored couple

Rapids torrent, lathered fizz

Foamy laughter fun it is.

  

 Little Red, rocky bed

Lap and wrap

The barbed head stones

Yet ever pliant on she roams.... 

Little Red, River Bed

Soothe our wounds, hush the ache

Cleanse the fear and stay awake.

Crystal bright and sapphire moon

Your loving lull becomes our tune

And fly, fly, fly

Little Red, daily bread

Feed from her source

And stay on course

You flitter flutter, quiver, flurry

Darling dear you needn’t worry

For rivers keep on keeping on

The thread is long

The pull is strong

Oh little red you never went

You’re heaven sent

We’ve lived and loved and now some more

Spread your wings restore and

Soar...

Mother Earth......  

(A love sonnet )

Earth’s minions, why will you subjugate her wonder?

For she will not lay silent nor still nor dormant in riposte...

And will appropriation from our own home be this world’s blunder...?

In selfish schemes, oh vacant dreams and capital to boast.    

With Pirate brunt a plunder to bounteous soils, 

Bereft a topiary cloak, muddy tears erode her wealth....

Synthetic haze garrottes the air, angry orb broils,    

Oh black spotted emission, harbinger of ill health. 

And so bequeath your modest gifts to a cherished hillside

Scatter seeds to the places laid bare

Then diverse, her life finds bowers of plenty, far and wide

Become her choice, obtain with care...

Stay safe in her branches and treasure this art

Our earth, queen of wonder and nurturing heart.  

Beyond Grey and the Midtown Blues

Blue is new and blue is true

Not really grey at all ..  

For every day

 In every way 

A soft place here to

Fall....

In between the violet storm

and emerald city lights

Clear as day she’s on her way

With cobalt hooded Knights.

Duck-egg yarns knit truth in time

To swaddle hearts in love,

Felted fondly faithful trust

With Sapphire’s dream above...

Mawkish wild and deep sea navy 

Azure iris eyes,

See beyond indolent grey

To Ocean’s fluent rise ... 

Blue sees color all around

To deepen every shade

Red is scarlet flame and brilliance

Green, a forest made ...

Salute to blue

and you

and you

.....adieu the bitter breeze,

May every morning’s cyan sky

Be our life’s noble deed.

My Traveller

(And the Tale of Real Magic..)

In Hartford, Hereford, and Hampshire.

Past the will o’ the wisp

And a malevolent marsh…..

Beyond a great chasm

And torrent of trouble

And woolly winds harsh….

I met a traveller on his way…

By the light of a river

And a rainbow's sky

Somewhere near morning

Where the bluebirds fly

I met a traveller

and he kissed my heart

with his hands

Up in the clouds

Where the dreamers play

And buttercup toast beams hello

Through the trees of the town  

In a carousel park

He decided to stay

On his way…..

And with Sylvan tongue strands

Of magic and mirth

I sang to him

….my traveller

“Orange flushed rare and gilt

Parakeet sweet and aerial built

Is the bird I see

In you

And with…

Honey jasmine scaling

Oh Wild Ivy trailing

Blooms your gardens hue

My Kindred Traveller….

Your Melody, My harmony

Accompaniment

A symphony

Is the sound that

beats our drum…..

Your stories penned in brilliant hand

Where heart meets mind in one… 

And all of this my dear,

Is true

is true 

For Tis

For sure,

That is 

the man that lives in you,

To open mornings door…"

xx