The Greatest Of All Anniversaries

It was exactly forty-six years ago today
That Mary Alma Queen of Ducks exchanged
Nuptial vows with Edward True Confessor
The Judge who became the devoted father
To wondrous sister Sara and conceived a
Crown Princess in Elizabeth who created
A family of her own as our parents made
Themselves into Smidge and Smed when
We found happiness despite problems in
The process of reaching maturity during
The mad time when we five fought demons
Until we found salvation in God's Grace
For which our family is always grateful
As we navigate loving days of existence
In which we adore each other eternally.

                 Dale(7)/22/26-18:DUCK2474--06/14/2011

Those Who Say I'm Introspective

I am Everyman and Everyman is me
So when I examine my existence
I try to understand the universal
Rather than the idiosyncratic on
This planet where I seek to catch
Rides on high jets shooting thru
The midnight sky like meteors as
I denigrate gravity holding down
All beings on the surface of the
Globe while my mind looks to see
The order of world not the chaos
Of Cosmos to which I want to fly
As I await the hour of my mortality
When all confusion will dissipate
And I can witness divine harmony
By which I will know I'm blessed
By the beauty of Grace of Christ
Pulling all to a Heaven we can't
Conceive from myopia of an Earth
From which death is only escape.

Heaven Of A Thousand Muses

I lack inspiration feeling being in love
Cannot be a permanent state and mad lust
For you negates the grace of forgiveness
I seek every night with prayer to Christ
While watching every day the sweet bodies
Of ladies with whom I would love to have
A relationship though Lord knows our needs
So I remain celibate and pursue the wishes
Of my physical self with gazes of longing
At lovely women driving their custom SUVs
With children to whom I can never be dad
Though still I wait to find my perfect maid.