Charles David Valle

Endless Song

From horizon to the beach

Does the hand of heaven reach

In the wilder winter weather

Of the ocean in the rain

When the daggers of the sun

Burst from out the clouds and run

Colors racing cross the sea

For the dance of the sea is a song

Declared at the edge of the sand

And the spray is as crystal in sunlight

Now the surf is a driven enchantment

And the wind is a wonderous thing

It speaks of the winters

As well as the springs

It heralds the summers

Of autumns it sings

In the winter of waves breaking freely

Is the song of the souls of the dead

And the sky is a painting in sumi

And the drumming of waves is a dirge

Till on the waves at day's repose

The sun doth cast a perfect rose

And the sky is incandescent

As it flames away to night

Couplets on Destiny     

And from creations timelessness God came

and where he stepped a galaxy became

By a single blow the soul was wrought

from out the substance of holy thought

Enjoy these fleeting hours, do not repine

for soon the bell that ends your life will chime

Is all earthly time a single verse

inscribed upon a timeless universe

A trail of sorrows followed by decay

with here and there a moment to be gay

To come and sit a while and to converse

amidst the glory of the universe

My dreams came shambling down the street one day

upon which pain and greed and tarnish lay

And do all souls depart in final flight

beyond the ancient portals of the night