Fuchsia Sky The fuchsia sky moved my soul playfully across the purple mountains while mandolins calmed the melancholy forests. I counted moments before the silent trout swam in octagon pillows of lake grass and the Colorado clouds swarmed above. Where will this counting of passions take me? The opal [...]
Around the Table Faces around the table The same but changed Every life a story, Adventures, challenges, and joys Laughter, tears, warm embraces Hold time gently As the days and years escape But the faces around the table— Stay suspended, caressed by memories. * * [...]
Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. —Zelda Fitzgerald The Unbarred View The coastal plain of my childhood stretches long and wide. No hills to roll down, no mountains to climb. I wondered about those places where brooks babbled and rocky edges left barely [...]
What’s Next When did the season change? How quickly mousy turned to silver and supple morphed into road maps of memories. Where flew the years of balancing meals, messiness, miles, and me? What happens next? Who am I now? The seasons pull me forward— becoming more.4.05.22 . . . True [...]
Leaves can teach us how to do it better. Nature never mourns or complains about the cycle of life from seed, to bud, to blooms, to decay, and back around again. Humans, including this one, struggle with the letting go. For everything, there is a season. I find myself in [...]
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant. —Henry David Thoreau Others’ Eyes I like to think I have my biases reigned in, tucked neatly in my pocket, and hidden from my thinking and action. No matter how hard I [...]
I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too?” —Emily Dickinson Who am I? I sat on a zoom call of unlikely poets. Analysts, field inspectors, payroll, and human resource professionals from different departments of a state agency gathered together with only one purpose. Each came with a [...]
Welcome to Part II, 30 Days of 30 Poems Year after year, I started with good intentions to complete 30 poems in April. I haven't accomplished that goal, yet... Perhaps—2022 is the year! Share, Comment, and Maybe a Leave a Poem I always appreciate hearing from you, and also [...]
Welcome to Part I, 30 Days of 30 Poems Year after year, I started with good intentions to complete 30 poems in April. I haven't accomplished that goal, yet... Perhaps—2022 is the year! Share, Comment, and Maybe a Leave a Poem I always appreciate hearing from you, and also [...]
Winter Clouds mask the earth cold, wet, haze no wind Stillness shivers, hours pass no sun, shadows minutes stretch Aimlessly one after another trees stand silent guarding stillness Four blackbirds seek refuge waiting, haunting, invisible to gloom Endless grey encompasses all while I caress winter Thoughts Where I live [...]
