THE TURTLE DOVES

The Turtle Doves - Happy 21st Anniversary

Two turtle doves resting side by side on the roost
Upon a tree, their nest covered by twenty-one leaves,
Nuzzle into each others neck cooing their love truest
From one to the other, while the gentle tree heaves
in the wind.

The breeze turns into a gale and the gale subsides,
And yet the love of the turtle doves in their heart resides;
Whether blown by the wind and separated by distance,
Or fettered by a cage, the obstacles offer mere pittance
to combat their bond.

The love of these turtle doves is twenty-one strong -
Bearing the quality of an oak that has aged long
Years, bearing the strain of nature and standing tall -
The love of these turtle doves is never to stall.

This humble poet carries on his pen, a prayer:
That the bond of the turtle doves remains as strong
forever.

THE FORCE

You are soft, meek and gentle, serene like a mountain tall;
And yet the surface belies not a torrential emotional fall
Lit by a rainbow in the millions of drops of water,
Cascading over a precipice into an abyss, over
Which run mighty bulls, stampeding through the terrain
Of your mind into others, only to return and charge again.
You are soft, meek and gentle, serene like a mountain tall;
And yet the surface belies not a torrential emotional fall.

THE RIVER

There is a river between us, the raging Ganges of emotion;
Her voice is loud and shrill and the whole world is in commotion;
She laughs at us while we're miles apart, mocking all the time
And all I can do is sit down and compose a rhyme.