love is holding your newborn baby for the first time love is sharing a bond love is respecting your partner love is being kissed good night love is being kissed good morning love is getting a hug when you’re in a bad mood love is…

It’s tiny cramped in there always worried day after day that the squirrels will choose you of the hundreds It’s waiting through seasons of cold and snow and ice and thaw until you find a way to reach downward into the earth and then upward…

What Is Love? Is love calm, and safe, Or butterflies and roller coasters, Flushed faces and romantic whispers Or talking all through the night? Is love gentle and kind, Or fierce and wild, Uncontrolled fire or a soothing balm To body, mind, and spirit? Is…

Love is Black it is freedom rides marches on Washington and Black Lives Matter protests and I am a man picket signs Love is Black it is historical it is music it is books it is lifelong learning Love is Black It’s Mamie and Emmett…

What is Love?       (Poem 10)   love love love love love is all you need love is all you need (Beatles)   When I consider love, I think they were right. I think the most important love is for ourselves because we project how we…

Such a broad question. Should it be though? Do people’s concept of love vary so much that there isn’t one definition? Universal ideals and thoughts. Even a list of words to describe it. Love is dependent on the individuals involved. Parent towards a child. The…

Trying “The people I love best are the ones who try” – Nancy Pagh, Trying Perhaps this is my folly: to never try enough. To let love happen to me as the wind happens to fall leaves, floating until I am brought indelibly to the…

Through the open window, a bright ray poised on the precipice of my brow, hair by hair, glides to an eyelash. It trembles, flutters. A groan, a sigh, I sit up, rise out of bed.   The garden wakes to full sun. Bearded iris sit…

Gratitude is an attitude In the absence of gratitude, Do not expect an attitude. Time is a predator, eating our daily cornmeal Stealing the apparel, attached to our jackets. If you’ve received one of my treatments, I appeased, from my feet to the central I’m…

“Amor”, as in extra. Six miles from the Mexican border, it often means less—   a luxury for those who can still afford it, or don’t mind paying too much for too little.   I am lucky to share my bed with someone who is…