Rainbows

Good Mountain


________by Bobby Matherne c1997

A good mountain is one
-- that you can see
-- and don't have to climb.
One where your spirit soars free
-- time after time.

The experience of peak
-- may be where it's at
But for getting around
-- it's best when it's flat.

A mountain can be a bore
-- always in one place
A mountain that moves
-- is more to my taste.

There is a feeling
-- ever rising
When I see a mountain
-- on yonder horizon,

But that feeling seems
-- to disappear
When the mountain
-- yet draws near.

On the prettiest day
-- that God has made
Everyone could use
-- a little shade
So pardon me the gloat
-- if a mountain
Over me should float
-- to offer coolness from the sky
And holy water if it's dry.


Memories' Present


________by Bobby Matherne c1997

It's not surprising one and all
That as we walk we do not fall.
We look behind us as before
And navigate right through the door.
Yet, though it's true in every clime,
No one suspects it's true of time:
Memories of the past and future
Present us with unconscious lure.

A Shadow


Relationship


by Bobby Matherne c1997

Like two eyes
__we look together
____in the same direction
__and in the parallax
____of our relationship,
Each sees a different view --
__on that we can agree --
But whose view is the right one
__is another thing entirely.
Rather let us adjust
__the focus of our intentions
____in our stereo viewer
And the difference will create
____the world anew
______in three dimensions.


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