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For my wife Debbie on her Graduation from Drake
University on May  21, 2005

through jigsaw forests
a distant reachable goal
is graduation
now new landscapes and strange blooms
will thrill in your ready mind

lying next to you
in our morning bed
I watch your peaceful sleep
does last night’s hot passion
still lurk beneath the facade?

John Daleiden
the moon this evening
and in the whole wide sky
not a trace of cloud

Socho
(1448-1532)

Ocean Beach On A Windy Night

Just as
the setting sun
sinks on the horizon—
through waves and clouds a sudden fear
invades.

I dread
the setting sun
when shadow and mist merge--
I become a sightless blind man
tapping.

Night falls--
optimism
sinks on the horizon--
relentless waves crush against rock—
abyss.

Beach sand
claws at my feet--
gulls squall in the chilled air--
through waves and clouds a sudden fear
descends.

Lonesome--
moonlight filters
through the dark moving clouds--
on my shoulders the ocean wind
invades.

Just as
morning sun rises
the pale full moon descends—
Is someone watching me as I
watch him?

John Daleiden


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