(written 2003) Resilience resides deep beneath the frailty of resolve,Dissolving only occasionally to keep itself from breaking.But from the stubborn jaw that’s set, never to exolve,Comes a tremble to the lips, that shows the heart is aching. Many years will come this way, where those (who care) must live,Alone in the comforting truth, that Truth …
(written 2003) What is that look in their eyes, the look that comes at “goodbye.” The look that says “Until when?” Instead of “then.” What is that stance they take, the one that fears a handshake, the stance that says “Don’t touch, I like you too much”? What is that feeling you get, when your caught in that net, struggling to find a …
(written 2002) Praise the Lord that Brad has flown,flown from here unto his heavenly home.Flying high on heavenly wing,past ways and galaxies that brightly gleam,through waters deep and incandescent,gleaming heights so phosphorescent.From the dark depths of night,to yet brighter shades of light,flying in angelic first class,o’er the emerald amber Sea Of Glass,and having only heard …
(written 2001) Throbbing with acoustic resonance,are the broken chords of my heart,dissembled to make some senseare each of their triad parts.Blurry and tan are my moving fingerseluding my sleepless eyeswhile this dream plays on and lingersin this music of the night. And what of this sundry patternthat repeats not ever alikeinspired by lights from a …
(written 1999) Is life so important from the day we are born,that we strive ever onward to at last die forlorn?We throw out youth for responsibility,and forsake childhood for maturityand ever are we sad and longing to goback to the good ol’ days of long ago. Is life so important every day we livethat we …
(written 1999) Words of thought like rivulets flowfilling streams with melted snowTheir lively pace then slows downbecoming deeper, withholding soundBut some thoughts evaporate into the airbecoming distant clouds so fair.Then things change and they darkenthunder rolls and humans hearken,and then the rain falls hard or softpattering the roof above your loft.And as you listen to …
(written 1999) It’s just another cloudy day,and it begs me come outside to play.Water giggles on the window pane,as I tease the happy falling rain. It’s just another cloudy day,a cheerful smile all filled with grey.Splashes in the silver pools,laugh at the passing cars of fools. The sound of clean air fills my mind,and the …
(written 1999) It swiftly falls in a darkening sky.It hides in the corner of your wandering eye.It softly babbles in your listening ear.But breathing it in is your greatest fear. It makes the sunlight too bright to bear.It soothes the burned skin that you carefully wear.It always tells the sadness in a heavy tear.But it …
(written 1994) In a distant land called “never been there”,I found myself in a land so fair.I was sitting there, there in the grass,kissing, hand in hand, with a lass.The land of “never been there” my friends,is a quiet place of lakes and glens,a place where secret gardens lie,in the apple of the forest’s eye.A …
(written 1994) I’m sitting here thinking of you,as daylight starts to wane,I’m sipping a cup of warm tea brew,looking through the pane. I remember well the good ol’ times,we’d sit around the floor,ignoring the early morning chimes.playing games till half past four. Childhood! Childhood! how soon you left!leaving us to life,if only we could be …
(words and corresponding music written 1993) Tears in the eyes, O how they brim and fall. The sky, O how it swims and calls. Maybe an unseen star,sings a song to me,pulling me from afar,to the music of Thee. -JHJ
(written 1992) I must quick away,ere yet I ever stay,while nearer creeps the day,and nightness runs away. I must away oh so soon,for to sleep in my night cocoon,so that tomorrow I may not swoon,while working tired like a goon. So off I am, yes yet again,gosh! it`s already 65 past ten!off to get that …
