A walk in the country

Cows on a hillside
Chewing on grasses
On a bee-buzzing day
Go to my head
Like opium

A barn leaning
like a rider's red hat
In a circle of oak trees
Makes me crazy giddy
with graces

Then there is silence
Silence in the wind
The wind speaks silence to the woods
As the woods speak silence to the wind

Nothing I'll ever say
Or sing or dance
or build or dream
Will carry the heart so high
As a single
outspent day.

Thank You

Thank you father for all of life

All its pain and beauty

Thank you father for the love of life

That sweetens the moments and days

Thank you father for the pulse of life

Drumming and humming within me

Thank you father for the world of life

Churning and changing forever

Thank you father for the tree of life

From which I have sprung

Thank you Father for the pain of life

That molds me into what it am

Thank your father for the end of life

Where opens the Great Door.

Thank you Father for the crown of life

Our reward in heaven

Thank you father for being life

For life--for life for this resounding life