To ask if there is some mistake If someone objects, it blames them and points their ego nature, It creates some worry bury your doubts Until you clean your hands Reality is a sharp edge sin Errors and faults Shot cut ways of life Don’t…

Remember Macaroni jewelry boxes? The first one for Mother’s Day was always a surprise. We need the elbow ones Ms. Merriwether said. “Don’t waste this food. There are starving children everywhere.” We need Elmers glue. We need paint too. A smoking box I think. “We…

Cousins What have you gathered my children, and where are you going? In through the front door and straight out the back. gardens await you, while the sea meets the shore. Will you carry your gatherings across generations? Place them on your mantle, remembrance of…

tiny heart beats madly excitedly they’ve given me the instructions which float like strips of rainbow from my jaw – as you proceed they’ll send you more and more to carry be willing you can do it with me are beating thousands and thousands of…

Text Prompts Write a poem about a time when something really bad happened…that later turned out to be a good thing. – a prompt by Harvey Schwartz Image Prompts Submitted by Catherine Dickson, a photo of her dog Lumpy.

Hour 12 – Gatherings   Its normally takes place on a Saturday usually bright and early, A skirl of the pipe chanter, the hum of the drones, the crisp sound of the drums. If you look around you’ll find a sea of different tartan kilts….

Gathering again mouths muted, no sound but music here to balance the cruel violence the ugly world does bear.   Smiles and hugs replace words, gestures of love and peace replace the earthly hate and war in outsiders’ collective face.   No masks they wear,…

    Hour 12 How strange is this connection, not by blood but met by fate, your friends make it live a heaven Unknowingly, if you meet your mates, No matter how long the period those gathering with loving friends, You Found someone in the…

The keep fire of desire burning, refuel it day and night and never let it run out of fire. When there is will there will surely be way. Let your passion grow everyday and keep moving with determination When these are kept in place. be…

My life is abundant with enriching gatherings — maybe God spoils me with these, parishioners, praying friends, generous with time and selves like even more family..   Nativity is a Catholic parish that has welcomed me warmly smiling and chatting and encouraging my ideas sharing…