There is beauty in so many surprising things

Unexpected joy that makes the heart sing

Everywhere it is there waiting to be found

If we’d only look for it as it surrounds

An exposure of gnarled branches in a ravine

Can be the stirring found within a dream

In this vivid reflection we call our life

We need those things of peace and less strife

Trails that need to be found and walked

Tales that need to be told and then talked

These are the things that I live by and for

Pausing to take it all in and then wanting more

The world turns like so much poetry in motion

And I keep on keeping on like another drop in the ocean