It doesn’t start like this Not with the soft centre Not with the creamy texture of it It’s never that simple You can’t skip the shell The crunchiness The pleasant hardness That keeps its shape Please don’t ignore The outer layers Of baked goods

Fire blazes brightly in the night What ho! Here is the fight Genuine and sharp Blades clang and sweat glistens Chasing our foe through the forest We’re all set in our courses.

When we hung the babies from the door jamb, Perched in a canvas seat, their turkey drum sticks With plump sticky toes decorating the bone, leapt, Pushed off the Pledge-polished wood floors, with the Strength of an Olympic dead broad jumper in flight. There, they’d…

The hardest things to say are I love you, forgive me, and help me in ascending order. We refrain from those words, their combinations, the vulnerability they provide. The damage they cause to our fragile “selves”. Regrets among the living to be carried into the…

I run through my dreams, I run through the bushes I fly with the wind , back to you, I dance through my dreams into your arms, for my love my heart may be wild but it belongs to your song. to our hills and…

The childish laughter rolled with the green hills Up and down and they enjoyed the play and thrills Sisters loving the sunshine in the pool of daffodils Running happily through the afternoon as a breeze brought on a chill Bows and laces, smiling faces, showing…

There’s fire ablaze on top of her head Her curls lay dormant around her cheeks Intertwine, deep…rooted las the willow tree The harsh cold winds blow through her flames Revealing her soft spotted face The emeralds in her eyes Shine a light through the mist…

The stones have been there since the beginning no, not of time perhaps of our time of our time in that place The stones have served as a marker, as a title as a force, a reminder They hold the secrets of talks overheard of…

5 years of love of overcoming the distance of travels, hellos and goodbyes 5 years of love have brought us much closer even if sometimes so far apart 5 years of love such a single modest digit but the count is still on 5 years…