old thoughts are falling  softly
like snowflakes today.
No sequence or order
just random pieces of my life.
Sheba my puppy wrestling
a cloth from hand.
My sister pretty
in a summer floral dress
dancing in the room
circles of blurred flowers
on her skirt.

me as a boy
Running wild through the cornfields
lost in its late summer maze of skeletons.
Feet dangling in the cool water of the lake.
As a girl slips her arms around my shoulder
her too blonde hair smells like roses.

Kissing my first date goodnight
after I walked her home.
The softness of her melted my heart.
now the thought of her
is printed on my soul.

Mom when she was young
wow she looks so beautiful.
She lifts a lock of my hair
out of my eyes as I leave for school.
More as an expression of love
like I still belonged to her.

The oceans purest blue waves
the first time I saw it.
whispering to me
sail away sail away.

My wife young and  sweet
as we said I do
in an old country church.
She lifted her face as I kissed her
for the first time as my wife.

I must come back here soon
I love these recollections.