Look to the lines Not just the brow: Around the nose Beside the mouth Beneath the eyes Even the chin Observe the chin Weak or strong lines? And keep your eyes On the eyebrow The second mouth Speaks what it knows Ignore the nose For shape,…

Your failing eyesight Greying hair and sagging skin- They are beautiful Silver proof of caring arms Holding us all together   by Karen Sullivan Form: Tanka    

Yin Dark, Black Destroying, Reaping, Chaos Moon, Water, Death, Life, Fire, Sun Creating, Sowing, Order Light, White Yang

I wish my name was Lucy. Beautiful red hair and tiny waist. I have some ‘splaining to do. Mouth and breasts full of chocolaty bon-bons. I can dance. I make my best friend get into shenanigans with me. If only my name was Lucy.

I thought I had so many ideas feeling empty now brief nap

I wonder if … If I could bite off a piece of your flesh. If I can swallow it make it a part of me. If that will ensure our never being separated.

I see in myself a troubadour; a mute, wandering minstrel. For though I have not the courage to read my words to you aloud, I could write to you until the end of days. I could write for you all my secret tales – some…

Female, Age 88, Late Stages of Dementia Fall risk, visual hallucinations Eyes as blue as night   What if the sky melted into a blanket of blue And washed all the gray away? What if the night broke into a thousand pieces, And the stars…

Pale and spotted with age, marked and ragged each passing day. Perspiration gleens with each new trial. Brow furrowed while hunting in style.   Teeth gleam white in the light of day Jaw squared, he sees his prey. Long dreadlocks flow in the wind. While…

The echo from a touch, The rippling of your godly frame against mine, That stirs even the the mountains awake, And being only twenty-one, we think this is love. I still feel you in the air conditioned room of that summer house, And I still…