Sweet Young Girl
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Fingers of Nature

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Poems  by Sea and Moonlight

A Smile
I have a SEED
Somewhere within I am
Hugo
Letter to My Brother Frank
Dictation for a Dictator
An Open Door; Heed It
Toast to You
Gleaming Eyes
Said Ken to Me
Count to Satan
Loneliness
Reflective Voyage
Pick up the Pail
Death Today
Quick Life
Old Man's Whistle
God Is:
Each Season
As If Infinity
One Hears the Tune
Have I forgotten Jesus?
Brain Damage
Church Description
Den
Death in a Jungle
Ten Lines
Nature's Law
It's Still Sad
The Flea Tree
Gain or Lose
Going Away from Here
Nightmare
Talking about People
Towns and their People
Dear, Dear, Dearest
Population
Top Line
Mountains Reach
Upon these Grounds
A Ship?
Let the Timbers Shake
Wladyshaw
Winds of Fate
Sweet Young Girl
Fingers of Nature
The Lord Spoke
The Celtic Told Me
Mary
Poem to Pat
A Free Man
Poem


Sweet young girl of yesterday,
dry these tears I often cry.
Fill my dreams that have long died,
touch my soul and show me a way.
Sweet young girl gone from me,
touch my soul and take me away.

Paths I walk are so long;
every step bring pains of years.
Mumbling words that are my fears,
words to an old, old song.
Sweet young girl gone with time,
touch my soul with your song.

Though my hair is so gray,
my winter days promise this:
each hour becomes a risk.
Naught is right, such a way?
Sweet young girl of memories,
touch my soul and take me away.

Fingers of Nature

Bring your mind fingers of Maother Nature.
Softly I will worship you with these flowers.
Hour by hour.

Floating over the valleys of your memory.
I will collect the sweet sands from your sea.
Gently I will offer you your finger-like flowers.
Hour by hour.

Flowers which softly touch with each touch one gives.
Flowers that are for our cause, our love, make it live.
Gracefully I will stretch out before you multi-colored flowers.
Hour by hour.

Bring your mind to an ocean of drifting finger-like flowers.
Float your heart between waves of overwhelming flowers.
To live is to be with you forever in multi-colored flowers. Hours upon hours.