parental presence

Your support for your child

is like sunshine appearing

from behind a mountain

of cloud obstacles to happiness

Like a beam of light in the fog

after a storm lashed ship

has almost grounded

upon the rocks

Like an oasis which is no illusion

where your troubled child may drink

the clear refreshing water of wisdom

after wandering in a desert of confusion

Dave Lewis

April 28 2010

clear heart vision

tumbling out the box
upturning faces
accumulations of old dreams
hidden disappointments

unresolved in disarray
guarding the past jealously
blocking gateways
to future satisfaction

moon shadow cast
light into darkness
new night dreams of hope
clear heart vision

Dave Lewis
29 April 2010

please excuse my scepticism about mother's day, it isn't the writing to one's mother to say happy mother's day that I find surreal. it is the notion that there is just one day when one should buy a card to acknowledge something that ought to be a daily sublimation. same with father's day. what about daughter's day, son's day?
it seems to my feverish mind that it is just another money making scheme by multi national card company's who then cut down the trees which they planted in what they call sustainable forests, but are really plantations which deprive local people of the arable land and agricultural availability to grow their own indigenous crops.