Night Child
Fall the night and rise the moon.
Wait to see, not seen too soon.

Calmly wait before the stars.
Crickets chirp melodic bars.

Enchanting sound, the blowing wind.
Shadowed trees that gently bend.

Youthful child, nightly dressed.
Springtime grown grass depressed.

Lifted face illuminated.
Staring eyes, all dissipated.

Solomn child seeks companion.
Innocent child needs to depend on.

Barren ears seek kind words.
Musical melodious chords.

Caring hands to touch the heart.
Simple laughter to fill the part.

Eyes and moon and solomn dreams.
Glimpses of what never seems.

Youthful child sits uncaressed.
Unfelt, the gentle hand suppressed.
This poem appears in the anthology, Impressions, by JMW Publishing Co., 1996.  Page 35.

It can also be heard on the 1992, The Sound of Poetry, audio cassette, by The National Library of Poetry).