The School of Soft Knox

I’ve enrolled in 

the School of Soft Knox

so when I stepped outside,

and saw a gray day, I listened.

Knox gave me a tug, told me

not to dismay, we didn’t

need sun to walk and play

                                            JDG

Knoxed Out

One thousand and one games of tug of war,

 an equal number of fetch the ball

and I bet you’ll never guess

who grew tired first.

Knox or me?

                                                            JDG

 

 

The Return

After a rain-filled 

morning, the sun shyly creeps

from beyond the clouds

and seeing the maple trees

glow, claims his place in the sky.

                                                      JDG

I Pause And Ask

As Autumn’s golden

light filters through the changing

leaves, I pause and ask,

” Is any light filtering

through a changed and changing me.”

                                                        JDG

Of Rocks And Rivers

Like a river

deals with a rock,

I’m learning

to deal with

obstacles.

The river doesn’t

protest 

the presence

of a rock, 

 nor does it let it

stop its flow.

It  works with 

and around

 what is there.

                          JDG

 

 

 

 

Autumn Shift

A yellow leaf drifts

slowly to the ground

as a mourning dove

flies upward to the trees –

a moving passage.

.                                      JDG