Life is worth living when love is in it
Love is balance, peace, and kindness
Loving makes me a tolerable creature
Love is warmth on a windy day
Love is a light heart
Free from mind's chains
Love is a gift more valued than gold
Love is your future
Love lets go
Loving is giving – all are deserving
Open the gates you locked long ago
Love is a highway
A two lane road
May your soul come to rest in love's quiet coves

Oh baby, yeah, baby
Tell me what I want to hear
You're an itch
I have to scratch
Come on over here
'Cause the blood reveals the pain
Of the war against my womb
They say it's better off a tomb
Until I reach my thirties dear
But abstinence won't keep a man
For ten years while you plan
Marry young and make the babies
Or sleep around then tie one down
Just in time to buy the diapers
What's a modern girl to do?
Keep her sanity or chastity
Go to work and go to school
What are the rules in this new era?
Born in chaos either way
Good enough's not good enough
When there's time enough to play

A hundred autumn leaves
Gracefully dancing down across light currents
On a backlit tree
The sun sets on the person we
Grew out of today
Now, only laughter and fond memories

My heart is a purse
With gold latches
In a tall, square, blue velvet box
Open it
It's filled with confetti

He's strumming a guitar
Sitting at a desk
Piled high with papers
The marshmallow man
Walks through the chain-link fence
Skin patterned blue
Plaid and paisley stripes
Creeping up the arms
Like a sky infection
Twice
I got a long way to go
To get back to where I was
I'm in love with my bed
Tomorrow I rise

Plump juicy strawberries
Ripe and sweet and wet
Bursting in the mouth
Then dying red and sumptuous

Anger's like a sneeze
We all should say "God bless you"
In ugly outbursts of all kinds
'Cause ugly is false and passing

The devil inside
Makes you lonely
We're all born to glow
In the innocence of love

But we can't always help it
In our weakness we will fail
Best to do no further harm
Get some exercise
Be alone

Gather support; do your calisthenics
To keep the demons
On the outskirts
You'll need vigilance and blessings

The grass is as important as the cattle
And the cowboy and his dogs
And the horse
And the birds high in the trees
All glory asks
Is that we do what we are able
It's so hard to tame these minds
But your actions can be beauty if you move with pride and courage
And environmental nuance

A side-winding snake
Glides over the packed desert earth
A wellspring of cold clear water
Gushes generously ahead
I slurp out of my clean cupped hands
Burnt but refreshed