(Picture Prompt) Laying, gazing through the window in the canopy covered meadow with you. The woolen blanket protects our skin from the straw mountain grass as our shoulders and hips press against one another while our heads meet at the temples. Our hands naturally find…

My Dearest …, We have this place…unseen by most; We have this bond…since we were born. We spent the years…apart; We promised we’d meet…near this end. As my middle years…come to me hard; Your senior years…harder still; Will you allow me in…or have you chose;…

Perseid’s Shower Submission #5 Ann WJ White We laid on our backs. Lake Itasca, the beginning of the Mississippi parkland. A family waiting for the dusk to transmogrify into night full of stars and silence. Waiting for meteors to travel at thirty-five seconds per mile…

I don’t seem to know a lot about a lot of things these days since all the bombs, since we lost Dad and I rarely feel him anymore, since the gun and the takings and the raging hot, impotent blood, since Mom’s slipping awayness, since…

Recipe For Procrastination Ingredients: Active mind A sense of laziness A love of naps Insomnia Some bursts of depression Too much to do Not enough to do Easily bored Aging Take your active mind and mix it with too much to be done … for…

I stood on the ground and looked up at the sky But tree branches covered my eye Enveloped by the greying branches the sky whispered, “I am high”.   Spread in majesty the tree branches clasped in unison Intent on masking the light of the…

Carved In My Heart Do you remember me? We met here… Long ago; Lifetimes before. Do you know me, still? We met again, Right here… Not even a moment ago. More than once… twice three times, four and five… a dozen times. Always so close……

Leaves fall like broken joy, from her beloved tree. Pain is felt by both the dying leaf,falling free and lonely tree.

My Beloved Mother, How are you? You would be wondering why I am writing you a letter. Do not wonder. I am thinking about you and all memories that I hold dearly. All the lessons you taught me still guides my every thought. You left…

Blinded by your deceptive Neptunium haze you caught my passionate Plutonian gaze and you hypnotize me in the night you silently seized my vulnerable light. Irresistible, you’re sinfully sweet with your honey-suckled laced lips— tasted like orange blossom drips— A most dreamy hallucinogen mixed with…