The air departed

A grey vacancy of grief

How can stars still shine

 Somewhere in stillness

See beyond the visible

Listen to silence

 Made ever smaller

A raindrop falls on  a leaf

Parts into many

 For pure poetry

The sinuous swim of fish

Writes finer than words

 Perching on the rocks

The seabird opens it wings

And lets the wind work

Feel it in your heart

In the rain - the trembling leaf

Rhythm everywhere

 Farewell to autumn

The hoary beast of winter

Steals down from the north

 With youth departed

Can some wisdom prove enough

To expect the best

 A holiday tree

Arrayed with berries and stars

Dusted with new snow

 Can you see the calm

On the far side of the storm

Fair seas and still skies

Could we purely sense

Could we surely smell and hear

 As animals do

Did something happen

To him when he was still young

To cause such anger

 Star-lit and moonfull

Gaze with me in the marvel 

The night sky shining

 Here’s a suggestion 

To advance the human race

Try to slow it down

The morning meadow

Mist rising from the flowers 

A doe and her fawns

 After my last breath

Do not lay flowers for me

Leave them in the wild

Swollen from the rains 

The satisfied saguaro 

A true thanksgiving 

A rare day distilled

Served over the winter's ice

Almost to the brim

 When you pull a thread

It might be the only seam

That comes unfastened

 Discount the answers

What would complete the questions?

The untold will tell