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Homesick
How I miss the panorama
Rainbow sunsets, golden dawns
Purple mountains--Arizona--
Are you now forever gone?
All around I see such beauty
Ozark forest, cool green glen
Dogwood blossom, sweet magnolia
But I'm homesick now and then
For the hot and dusty desert
For the catclaw and mesquite
Rocky, barren Arizona
Childhood memories, bittersweet
How I miss familiar faces
My dear Mama, Grandma, too
Friendly neighbors
And dear friends there
Thinking of them makes me blue
Ozark people are God's children, too
Someday I may call this "Home"
But, for now, I am so homesick
Wish I'd never chose to roam
I just want to go home...
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OH! ARIZONA
The days pass much like the days anywhere.
Same cares, same woes, same joys, it's just a pretty place
in which to live.
But, there comes an hour in each day
just before it is time to rest.
People settle down,
birds seek their roosts,
all creatures pause
seeming to wait the coming event.
The sun drops down behind the horizon
and the sky lights up.
A pink and yellow blush washes brightly from the west
fading to pale golds in the east.
Then the earth starts to fade to darkness
with just reflections of gold
touching the edges of all things.
The sky gathers its colors in intensity
until the eyes are overwhelmed
and the mind is consumed.
Gradually and gently the fingers of color withdraw
until there is
just a touch of gold on the clouds.
All color follows the sun around the earth
and blackness wraps itself around
until I am suspended within its folds.
I stare upwards into the blazing blanket of stars,
reaching my hand to touch the unreachable,
feeling the universe brush my finger tips.
Oh Arizona!
©
Jude Hinds
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