In a dark starry night, And the stars infinite, The moon was not upright And the shadow, not very bright After the flickering twilight, There was a sunrise. Although the glimpse was slight And the feeling of fright, What I saw was a lovely sight….

Golden roads curve through Golden hills of autumn grass Glinting, golden, in the Indian summer sun Warm air whistles through Warm, blonde locks of hair While warm smiles shine on everyone Cool air captured by misty mountains Cool cars winding around roads Chill cool girls…

A silly fool’s foolish heart carved; thoughts often scattered, but never torn apart. Narcissism, the bearable kind; a relatively non-foggy intelligent mind. Sunshine both from the morn and noon, twilight hues and not a minute too soon. Drizzles, downpours, floods and fall, drench my soul,…

Metaphoric to Sink Your Teeth Into A friend recently said poetry is like a tube of toothpaste. That’s it, that’s all he said. I told a friend that this friend said this about poetry and she said, that’s ridiculous. Perhaps, but I get it. Once…

Hey my beautiful Queen! Life hasn’t really been quite the same since you the day God called you home I truly hope on your travels to the pearly gates you saw the beauty of the Universe Were the stars as bright as I imaged? Did…

A looked in the sky A great new phenomenon The blue sky has turned to GREY Its misty blue is no more just a misty grey now in view. The ambiance of the misty grey are like the flowers of smoke that spread a cross…

With good intentions Christian ladies set up Craft tables in the Church parking lot   Below in the cemetery A family waits to bury Leo Perhaps a quick look at Handmade items for sale   Beneath blue tent mourners pray The vault truck idles in…

As she stands beneath the trees, Dancing with the sunshine that falls through the leaves, Facing the north, so that the left side of her body catches golden fire in the evening glow, I am reminded: The beauty of light would be lost without shadows…

As the journey concludes, I stand at the peak As I gaze o’er the valley below The sunbeams, a shadow of where I have been Their light, signs of where I’m to go For while here on top, where I can touch the sky I…

I grew up in the city  Our skies glowed with pity Lit up with banished dreams  And darkness disguised  The skies advised,  Somewhere, a ship full of stars capsized  So I traveled with longing  A necessary yearning  Walked past abandoned shrubs,  Past sirens calling,  Forests…