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Mokeeta, Mokeeta and more Annabel lee

Mokeeta, Mokeeta; the soft winds are calling; Oh where are you sleeping? Oh where can you be? I miss you MOKEETA, when twilight is falling- Oh why then so SILENT? Oh why then so far? I miss you MOKEETA, Oh where can you be? Far in the twilight your brown hair is gleaming- I see [...]

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Sillysong

I weave for you, again, No “sillysong”…. Of sunsets in the WEST- Or……drifting sky…… Or TWILIGHT HOURS, from forgotten days- or how the PRAIRIE wind…..goes singing by! I will not pause an hour again to build A castle….in the far dim land of DREAM- Or how the wind flows ever whispering by- Or bright with [...]

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A Better Land

There are no castles in this world, Like once we built in Spain! And never again the soft wind blows- Adown the shady lane! An Angel helped me write these lines- She is always here with me! Im sending HER to you today, In a dreamers poetry! I tell her “fly away out WEST!” “Across [...]

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Song of Love

The song of love is a sad song- I followed the trail and I know- The song of lvoe is an old song- And we lost it long ago! The song of love is a bright song- Tho bound in pain and woe- The song of love is a dear old song- FROM THE DAYS [...]

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Singing Trees

O tree of trees, neath skies of blue I once was glad and young with you! And now at last you sing to me, Of all the years, that used to be! a tree who slowly, softly weaves, The “Songs of Summer” through her leaves! A tree who bends, as winds go by And autumn [...]

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