Dick Green's "Unexpected Change" Poem

Unexpected Change


Too late to go back
To undo the words spoken
No wish does he lack
To bind the heart broken.

Take off the old mask
Head out past parts known
Don’t shrink from the task
Rethink wild oats sown.

Next chapters come slowly
New chaff from old wheat
Old memories voice quickly
Fresh paths for fleet feet.

T’is gone not for naught
Feet now on the ground
Will a new heart be caught
What’s lost can be found,

To run from a sad wind
Would only let fail
Find breezes, a new kind
Then try a new sail.


2010 D. Green

Dick Green's "Enough" Poem

If Enough

How many wandering thoughts
have run through the mill wheel
of your mind, and when slowly
swallowed by the heart have
found their place as words on a
page filled in by a too hopeful
hand. Then as the path of your
pen stops still, you wonder if
enough has been found, if
enough has been learned, if
enough has been poured into
life's waiting cup, only to hear it
emptied as an echo fading into
canyons of unbearable silence.

© 2010 DGreen