CLOUDS OF DARKNESS

From where I stand, I look out at the wide open sky,

There in the distance, a wall of darkness slowly approaching my way.

The wind is blowing, carrying clouds through the air,

Feeling trapped where I am, no place to run.

Gaining on me with a powerful force, these clouds up so high,

Staring up at them in the dark, dark, sky.

Clouds of darkness are everywhere, following over me,

What can happen? they can’t fall on me.

These clouds of darkness have everyplace to roam,

Up in the air is where they make their home.

Keith Garrett

CLOUDS IN THE WATER

Like the water is a mirror of a scene from the sky,

A floating river as the clouds drift on by, they drift.

Up in the air an ocean of clouds, waves of clouds,

Through the land. a path runs free, clouds in the water.

Keith Garrett

CLEAR, CLEAR, SKY

What pictures are there when a sky is clear,

Is it just emptiness or a mind closed without imagination.?

Take a look and into it you’ll see,

What’s beyond if you’ll only dream.

The wind is there as it swirls with power,

Without clouds, it is less observed.

Perhaps way up high a bird flies by,

A jet on a journey to some other land.

There’s a brightness to a sky that is clear,

You can see for miles if you open your mind to what’s up there.

When night falls in a clear, clear, sky,

Look up and see all there is to be.

Keith Garrett

THE GREATEST

It has been said that he can float like a butterfly and sting like a bee,

He started out a young man Cassius Clay, as a man known better as Muhammad Ali.

Opinions were plenty, from his mouth he did speak,

He believed in many causes fore he was not weak.

In the ring fought did he quick and strong,

Danced and moved till his opponent could not go on.

His strategy was strange to let one hit him but not go down,

Then tire you out and knock you to the ground.

He always wore a smile, never to frown,

In the end, this champion would wear his crown.

Keith Garrett

CHILDREN WERE WE

Echoes in time, treasured sounds dreamed in my mind,

From a lifetime ago in a place from the past, a town.

Walking in the streets, a simple time remembered,

Shadows, ghosts of friends thought of once in awhile.

Warm Summers with not a care in the world for us,

Young were we as if today might be yesterday.

With the wind, the years are swept away into today,

The voice of a woman, a girl brought from a distant day.

Children were we just a moment ago, only a moment ago,

From a man to a woman again i might know, images of children,

Thoughts of a place sometimes traveled in my mind alone.

Keith Garrett

CHEROKEE

I remember you. my friend, It’s been quite awhile,

You gave a grin but did not smile, there were many miles.

Running through the park, you did have a mind of your own,

Chasing the wind, free to bark at the birds, you would run.

Beige and white, a hound dog that would sleep by the bed at night,

Never have you been forgotten, when you went away it was hard,

Your pain was now gone, chasing birds in the wind would be forever.

Today I think of you as your name came suddenly to my mind,

” Cherokee” you were known all around, I remember your sound.

Keith Garrett

CHAPTERS OF LIFE

We’ve all had our beginning, that place we call our hometown,

We’ll each of us have an ending, where and when we do not know.

Everyone starts out small and grows with time,

We age moment by moment in our given lifetime.

There’s a book that we all own, we make the cover,

The words are created from our everyday adventure.

Our chapters of life grow and are counted,

With every sunrise until the last sunset.

It’s an open book of endless pages until we stop writing,

A novel to be remembered by others.

Whom will judge the value or worth from our chapters of life,

Many will try, there will be those who did like it,

Perhaps some who won’t.

In the end it will be from the spirit in the sky.

Keith Garrett

CHALLENGES OF LIFE

There have been many times of myself I’ve asked why me,?

Thinking there is no one else these things could be.

Who am i to think in my life that i have the only pain,?

Because my focus is not on others of the same.

Sometimes our road is smooth as we go along,

We take for granted until our world goes wrong.

Stronger are we and our courage does grow,

Character is formed in our spirit and soul.

To give up has no meaning, certainly we have no choice,

All of us have to face our challenges of life.

Keith Garrett

CELTIC SOUNDS

Irish music from a far away land,

Mystical tunes, into my mind they are heard.

Soothing to the soul, these words listened too,

Closing my eyes, drifting into a dream state of peace.

These voices of angels singing so soft,

Echoes into your thoughts feelings of at ease.

Instruments of sound like a symphony of happiness,

Something of a heavenly miracle.

Celtic sounds from long ago,

Live on, and on like spirits in the wind.

Keith Garrett

CAVE OF DARKNESS

Have you ever been In a cave, was It light wandering In,?

Did you venture further Into the dark, cold, wondering.?

How far In do you think this cave of darkness really goes,?

Caves exist all over the world, many different and unusual types.

Bears are known to be a common visitor as well as other animals,

Who can say how long these caves have been there and what story’s.

Maybe things of treasure have been buried and rest In there for centuries,

Are there those lost for such a long time now a part of every cave of darkness.?

Many have explored and searched for hidden valuables throughout time,

How many were lost, those who walked out were and are the fortunate ones.

A cave of darknesS, mystery and adventure.

Keith Garrett