LAPIDARY PSALM

LAPIDARY PSALM

You’re sitting on a gold mine –
You’re standing on a hoard –
Your talent’s glowing in the dark –
Your music can be heard.

Start excavating knowledge –
Start drilling for the vein –
Start faceting the wisdom of
Your immanent domain.

The world is full of beauty –
The Earth has wealth for all –
Start magnifying who you are –
Start answering the call.

An echo in the valleys –
A shimmer in the fells –
A shiver on the hillsides –
A ripple in the dells.

(14 August 2010, Pleasant Grove, Utah)

SMILE PSALM

SMILE PSALM

She let her voice be beautiful –
She let her song emerge –
She let her tenderness evolve
Into a gentle curve –

Allowed the years to soften tone –
Permitted age to bend
Her plainness into cadences
With measures that ascend.

(14 August 2010, Provo, Utah)