If I want to attend

a symphony, I only

have to step outside

and listen to the birds.

JDG

It’s just September,

well over a month

before Halloween,

and some stores

already have Christmas

items on display. 

In October they’ll

probably put out their

Easter eggs and baskets.

JDG

Softly the night falls

and wraps us in a blanket

of silence and peace

until a neighbor’s dog howls

 at a nonexistent moon.

JDG

As the mind wandered

here, there, and everywhere, 

it missed its date with poetry.

JDG

Each of us is but a dot

in an ever expanding picture,

and each dot matters.

JDG