Mostly Wind

Blue sky horses running
Made of mostly wind
Appaloosas moving like leaves tumbling
Quaking aspen spots on moving rumps
Constellations on the hide like a map of the stars
Muscles coiled and unfurled wave the air
A spirit riding on mostly wind

-Douglas E. Taylor (image & poem)copyright 2005

Mostly Spirit

Running to run
Like the sun floating on a river
We are spirit
Like a running horse's shadow
And the ancient breeze in a meadow
And the life song that winnows through

And the witness of these eyes that sees the colors of the skies
And remembers enough to tell the story to the wind
About mostly spirit
And how the grass bends
And bends
  and bends

-Douglas E. Taylor (image & poem)copyright 2008

Somewhere Where

Somewhere where the aspens grow
and the wild waters flow
Somewhere where the rivers and horses run
and the mountains rise with the sun

Somewhere where the sky dances around
and the wild flowers sing their lovely sound
That's where we'll find you and me,
Our home as far as we can see

Somewhere where the stars put on a show
Somewhere where there is room enough to know
What is really important to us,
  About living and loving in the trust
  That we are doing our part
  Thinking and feeling with our heart

Somewhere where we hear the land singing
The chorus of our souls yodeling
Somewhere where we shout our hymn out loud
Somewhere where we are silent as clouds
Somewhere where we live our dream,
Flowing in harmony like trout in the stream

Somewhere where the aspens grow
and the wild waters flow
Somewhere where the rivers and horses run
and the mountains rise with the sun
That's where we'll find you and me,
Our home as far as we can see          

Douglas E. Taylor -  2004 & 2005 copyright

Other poems by Taylor:
Felicity poem
Whirled Piece poems
Horse and related poems

Self-portrait of artist and poet, Douglas E. Taylor with an oil painting self-portrait done in 1986 as Paul Gauguin’s Self-portrait with Yellow Christ