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• The Attic

  by Father

  See her hiding in the attic
  She wants to say hello
  To all her friends and dear ones
  She knew so long ago.
  
  She watches as they stumble
  She hurts each time they fall
  She cries to try to warn them
  But no-one hears her call.
  
  The old ones now are dying
  The young ones now are old
  The new ones don't remember
  The stories she once told.
  
  O hear us cry in pain
  O see us dream in vain
  We know that once you came
  So won't you come again.
  
  We had no right to bury
  Your thoughts and dreams with flesh
  So leave behind the attic
  And start your life afresh. 
  
  There's time enough for reason
  There's time enough for rhyme
  We have another season
  Let's try it one more time. 

• What We Don’t Say

  by Father

  What we don't say
  Means as much
  As what we do say
  And what we don't see
  Means as much
  As what we see
  
  And who we don't love
  Or who we miss loving
  Can change our lives
  As much or more
  Than those we've loved.

• Love Drips

  by Father

  Love drips
  Collecting 
  In a pool
  Pooling
  To a stream
  Streaming to the sea
  Seeing you and me
  As we drop 
  by drop
  Gather together
  The water of life - 
  Love.

• You Still Sigh

  by Daughter

  You still sigh
  Even though you are gone
  You have become creativity
  and I crawl up close to you
  I put my face in your neck
  For a few moments every day
  I can draw in your presence
  This longing to be with you
  Is the gift of inspiration
  Is the reason I keep breathing.

• Counterconclusion

  by Father

  I have come to the 
  Counterconclusion
  That some of my
  Illusions
  Weren't real
  And that some things
  that were there
  I could really feel
  Afterall.

• You Have Room Enough

  by Father

  You have room enough
  Inside you
  To hold all the fears
  That I hide
  You have time enough
  Beside you
  To catch all the tears 
  That I'll cry
  And your arms are strong enough
  To keep me
  From hurting myself
  When you're gone
  And your love's just deep enough
  To make me
  Keep trying to carry
  Our love on.
  

• Take Me In Your Arms

  by Father

  Take me in your arms
  Without telling me before
  Hold me safe and tight
  Love me so much more
  I'm starving for affection
  For love I've never known
  Take me in your arms
  And make your love my home
  
  Hold me close to you
  I won't tell you what to do
  Take my love tonight
  And make my world seem right
  I'm starving for attention
  For love I've never known
  Take me in your arms
  I've been so long alone.

• Shadows Crossing

  by Father

  Shadows crossing
  Body tossing
  Losing sleep
  Over you
  Windows flashing
  Traffic lashing
  Nothing left
  I can do
  Teardrops streaming
  Crazy dreaming
  I can't shut down
  My mind
  Unbelieving
  Webbing weaving
  Think I love her
  This time. 

• So It Seemed

  by Father

  I saw you once
  Outside a dream
  You had it all
  Or so it seemed
  
  Your smile was warm
  As the summer sun
  You fooled them all
  Except for one
  
  I saw the hoax
  I peered right through
  But there was little 
  That I could do
  
  Time had been spent
  There was no more
  The dreams were dreamt
  Chance closed the door
  
  Time went rushing
  So quickly by
  I failed to hear
  Your desperate cry
  
  Save me now!
  You had begged back then
  Save me please!
  You begged again
  
  But I was lost
  Inside a dream
  I had it all
  Or so it seemed.

• Yesterday

  by Father

  Yesterday
  Can feed today
  And today
  Can feed tomorrow
  But missing loving you
  Will always be my sorrow.

• Howls of the Wind

  by Father

  When did the howls of the wind
  Become our lullabye
  And the deep dark winter night
  Replace the youthful summer
  Twilight
  And when did we decide 
  To go to the moon
  Without each other?
  
  Pack your bags
  And come back to me
  We both must be weary
  Of this unreality
  And when the stars and the sun
  Shower their light
  We'll both bathe together
  In the same days and same nights. 

• Demons

  by Father

  No demon can possess me
  No villain practice trickery
  No arrow of my enemy
  Penetrate my heart
  I have survived myself
  And all other harm pales
  After me.

• Chrysalis

  by Father

  Dormant as a chrysalis
  A thousand dreams 
  I thought to be dead
  Pulsate 
  Then stir
  Unfold
  And fly
  From my head
  
  In your wake

• Early Morning Wind

  by Father

  Early morning wind
  Calling
  Like an early warning friend
  Falling 
  Like a raindrop to the ground
  Travelling
  Like a loner homeward bound.
  Early morning breeze
  Rushing
  Through the early morning trees
  Feeling
  Lost then being found
  Crying
  Hard to make a sound.
  Early morning friend
  Whispering
  Here comes love again
  Wishing
  It would never end
  Running
  Through the early morning wind. 

• Wanting More Comes Easily

  by Father

  Unseen winds blow unknown thoughts
  Through unclosed doors
  Into unconscious minds.
  To want, to be
  To feel, to do
  To be alone
  Just loving you.
  Not much to ask
  Not much to be
  Seems wanting more
  Comes easily. 

• The Trying Man

  by Father

  The trying man
  Is a dying man,
  If he cannot succeed.
  And the steady man
  With the ready hand
  Dies from unspoken need.
  And the man
  That wins
  Tries again
  To grow the golden seed.
  Try dying
  or 
  Die trying
  It's all the same
  It seems.
  But could I choose
  My way to go
  I'd drown
  Inside a dream. 

• The World Is On My Tongue

  by Daughter

  The world is on my tongue
  I taste the images
  The detail is in my fingers
  The trick is finding the words
  Just as the pianist 
  Finds her notes to make a song
  It's all a foreign language
  The poetry of life
  The waitress calling orders to the cook
  Scattered smothered
  And my aim is 
  To catch the delicate wonder
  That dances around me
  To see what is already here
   

• When All the Love Was Free

  by Father

  I look in your eyes
  And I see
  Another time and place
  I see me
  When grass was tall
  And troubles small
  And home was the place to be
  Where children played forever
  And families stayed together
  And all the love was free

• And the Starlight

  by Father

  And the starlight
  Lit my dreams
  As I sailed
  A golden stream
  Through the middle
  Of the night
  Gliding with the wind
  Hoping love
  Would come again
  And the moonlight
  Lit my way
  As I trailed
  The Milky Way
  Through the middle
  Of a dream
  Sliding to the end
  Praying love
  Would come again
  

• Compounding Losses

  by Daughter

  Is it possible
  That when my great loves die
  Part of me goes with them
  Half of my heartbeats
  Leaving me with half of my energy
  Half of my memories
  Leaving me with half of my identity
  Are those pieces
  There in the liminal space
  In the fog of changes
  Neither with me
  Nor with my loves
  But making friends with the halves of others
  Compounding losses
  Somewhere making a whole

• You’re A Dream

  by Father

  You're a dream
  And dreams must fly
  If you catch one
  Or tame one
  It soon dies
  And once you have it
  Firm in your hand
  That dream will never
  Ever fly again - 
  I've caught some dreams
  But I set them free
  Because my dreams
  Couldn't live with me.

• I Have Heard the Message of Spring

  by Father

  I have heard
  The message of spring
  I have seen
  The love it can bring
  I have opened the letters
  Of winters ages
  And I have felt the warmth
  In their pages
  And I have read
  The book of you
  And it made me richer
  Than I ever knew.

• The Many Forms of Love

  by Father

  If you think
  My songs
  Are songs 
  Of sorrow
  Not joy
  You're mistaken
  Love is life
  It must be taken
  Where it's found
  And if it's lost
  It's worth the cost
  For we are here
  For just one reason
  And we are bound
  With every move
  With every sound
  To find each other
  In the many forms of love. 

• A Treatise on Time

  by Father

  Time is a trickster
  That morphs in and out of our minds
  By bits and pieces
  Fragments float
  Through our consciousness
  Disrespecting any sense of order or sequence
  It is even absorbed into and becomes part of
  Our daydreams and nightmares
  Time plus imagination
  Is reality

• What Comes After Love?

  by Father

  So many thoughts in aimless wander
  So many days worthlessly spent
  So many years in endless longing
  For life
  Faceless mannequins
  With more personality and charm
  Than their models
  As silence sounds its call to night
  To wed with darkness and faint shadows
  The memory of hope rushes out
  Only prints in the sand remain
  Of life in its careless haste
  Letting chances go by
  Completely unobserved
  I was sleeping
  Sleeping in contentment
  Of love found, formed, and made
  But what comes after love
  What do you do
  After your dreams of love and passion
  Are related in actions
  Actions after which words are empty whisps of wind
  Something more than love?
  Is there such a thing?
  I feel it, yet I can't touch it or define it
  But I know it's there
  Perhaps what I feel is only a greater love
  An extension and not an alternative
  Sometimes the unknown is stronger
  The untried more appealing
  Than that which is familiar
  Though the familiar 
  Be much wanted and loved.
  I wish I were two men
  Or maybe three. 

• Maybe All I Want

  by Father

  Maybe all I want now
  Is the anticipated rain
  Thunder in the distance
  A far off haunting train
  Nothing else around me
  But the growling of the wind
  And a piercing cold emotion
  That wants it all to end
  To ride a bolt of lightning
  Through the blackness of the sky
  To see the earth below me
  Reflect into my eye
  To feel the burning embers
  Of dreams that would not end
  As time dissolves behind me
  Disappearing with the wind
  It was all I ever wanted
  This love I would never see
  This union and belonging
  With what could never be

• My Birthday Began

  by Father

  My birthday began
  In the wind
  And the words
  From the birds
  And the sun
  Drank the water
  From the earth's veins
  And the fathers of the towering forests
  And the mothers
  Of the infant grass
  Gave to me
  Their gifts
  And I took them
  As love takes time
  And they were mine
  For as long as I cared
  To share them;
  But I don't even pause
  To sink my claws
  In her ground 
  Anymore;
  My birthday will end
  In the wind 
  The birds
  And the words 
  Will be gone
  With the song
  But the gifts
  That they gave
  Won't be wasted. 

• A Fragment of Time

  by Father

  A fragment of time
  A momentary line
  Linking
  You and I
  But couldn't it be
  That we are the answer
  To each others question
  Or are the bonds behind
  That bind you
  And blind you
  Stronger than mine
  And your dreams
  Do they seem 
  Much more real
  Than you feel
  About me. 

• I’ve Made the Mistake

  by Father

  I've made the mistake
  Of wanting to be
  Everything
  To everyone
  Of wanting someone
  To be everything
  To me
  And of wanting
  Tomorrow
  Today
  And having to have
  Everything
  My own way. 

• If She Were Here Now

  by Father

  If she were here now
  Would I care anymore
  Than I did before
  Would I hold her tighter
  Would my eyes shine brighter
  If she were here now
  Maybe somehow
  We could make a change
  I would understand her
  She would see me
  As I really am
  As I really can be
  And we would try harder
  More than back then
  And we would love deeper
  If we met again. 

• From Amy

  by Father

  Once upon a time
  When you were very young
  We sang and played all day
  I was the only one
  
  I went wherever you went
  And did all you wanted to do
  You always took care of me
  And I always took care of you
  
  Thanks for all the fun times
  Thanks for the love and smiles
  Just promise you'll think of me 
  Every once and awhile

• Run, Young One, Run

  by Father

  Young one run
  Run from time
  Stay in your prime
  Flee from age
  And the keepers cage
  Hold the love
  In your heart
  That's been there
  From the very start
  Keep things fun
  Love everyone
  Run, young one, run.
  Turn your eyes to the sun
  Pretend you're the one
  Who can change it all;
  Oh I've let you down
  With every move
  With every sound
  And though I know
  Which way to go
  I just keep going round.

• Chasing Sunshine

  by Daughter

  The practice of being bold
  Who you are on the outside
  Matches your inside
  Because you have the freedom to practice
  Wrinkles result from the practice
  Of smiling
  Confidence results from the practice
  Of saying what you experience
  Warmth results from the practice
  Of chasing sunshine
  I smile
  I say what's only true
  I chase the place
  We can lie together in the sun

• The Poem

  by Father

  I was thinking about him one Monday morning.
  For a moment I thought I could touch him.
  But the President of International Business
  Said I couldn't think of him anymore,
  Not on Company time.
  I was thinking about him again while standing
  In the lunch line. But the Chief Chef of 
  International Food wouldn't let me think --
  There were people behind me waiting.
  I was thinking about him on the way home
  But the Chief of Police said I'd better move on.
  Again my friend entered my mind 
  As I entered my front door
  But the Chairman of International Broadcasting
  Interrupted with the daily news. 
  I spent the remainder of the evening
  With two repairmen and some neighbors
  Who happened to drop in.
  My friend died that evening
  And I never even got to say goodbye--
  He died from lack of attention, severe neglect
  And complications brought on 
  By obsolescence.
  I still try to think of him from time to time
  But it's difficult you know--
  Who cares about a Poem anymore?

• When I’ve No Dreams

  by Father

  When I've no dreams
  Remaining
  To help me make it 
  Through
  I'll think of things
  Like the love
  You bring
  And the loving things
  You do;
  My anger took
  My patience
  My errors took
  My pride
  And though
  I couldn't help myself
  You have to know
  I tried;
  And when those times
  Of loving you
  Turn inside my mind
  I'll close my eyes
  And dream again
  The dreams I left behind.

• I Trade Truth

  by Daughter

  I trade truth for comfort
  When the truth is quiet 
  I can bear it
  But sometimes the truth is deafening
  It's a car wreck of violence
  That I cannot ignore
  I pick up the pieces 
  And I put them in my pocket
  But the cuts from the metal and the glass
  Cause me to slowly bleed out
  

• The Healer

  by Father

  As I wait and wonder
  What's beyond tomorrow
  And as the rain and thunder
  Intensify my sorrow
  And as I lie here sighing
  And as my dreams are dying
  The great healer known as crying
  Drowns my sorrowed soul.

• Scars

  by Father

  We all have scars
  From all the wars
  We've fought fighting ourselves
  And we all have wounds
  That we'd just as soon
  Not reveal
  We've all cried tears
  And seen our fears
  Ruin every plan and scheme
  We've filled our heads
  With doubts instead
  Of filling them with dreams
  But though the knight in white
  Has lost the fight
  With his armor torn to shreds
  He'll kiss your lips
  And hold you tight
  And kneel beside your bed. 

• Land of Joyful Mystery

  by Daughter

  There are some of us here
  In the Land of Joyful Mystery
  We see you striving 
  In your seemed certainty
  We try to communicate
  With art, poetry and music
  Join us - we ask you
  Subversive - but we are here
  Living among you
  Because you still hold the power
  But we breached contract

• Some People

  by Father

  Some people
  Move about
  With a noise
  And clatter
  That mimic
  Their inner
  Confusion
  While others
  Come and go 
  With a silence
  That disguises
  Their inner strength