Your mountains and prairies are safe from me,

it’s only your roads I want

89 in Utah, 191 in Montana,

route 50 cutting Nevada in half

I’m not looking to stay or upset your order,

like New Yorkers and Californians do

I just want to ride to tomorrow and back

—the view and the memories my home

 

(Dewey Montana: September, 1996)

God is unquestioned,

therefore he has no answers

 

All questions for man

—looking outward in vain

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2021)

Riding through fear

until passing regret

 

Excuses on fire,

memory beset

 

Leaving the past

and the future untold

 

Freedom inherent

—the moment unfolds

 

(Deamsleep: August, 2021)

He never met a man he didn’t like

—or ever let a sunrise become old

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2021)

Riding a giant wave,

dancing with God

Running from the Devil

—to the edge of beyond

 

(Waimea Bay: February, 1963)

Outrunning his destiny,

overtaking his fate

Reprieving tomorrow

—all time to abate

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2021)

God has no essence

beyond his existence

 

No parts to the whole

—forever as one

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2021)

The nightingale only sings

to the rose bush,

Beauty to beauty

—nature Divine

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2021)

From the fire, from the embers

of his bungalow

he sears,

the nights latest victim

—new ash in the wind

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2021)

Are you everything you could have been,

the moments gone,

the wafer thin

 

While reaching out did you lose hold

of what defines you,

a broken mold

 

The chase elusive, running wild

into the darkness,

a bastard child

 

To reach old age before your time,

a broken bell

—that cannot chime

 

(Villanova University: July, 2021)