Changes leads to goodbye, For the first time in September, I worried on where I’m going, On what I’m after, On where I was before, I worried on everything that happened. And happens simultaneously. It’s like a tapestry of events, Happening once more.   They…

I felt as if I was floating I sat and watched the wind pushing itself across the water How can I keep this Feeling from sinking?   No one came for me and yet I felt as if I was floating All alone I watched…

Each year I have yearned to see all the sunflowers as they turned. But try as I might, the sunflowers grew out of sight!   Bowing, bending and blending Growing beyond my tending! Until that momentous day when the wooden swing was made!   Over…

I woke to her weeping He declined quickly Particular – although they’d likely say ‘undiagnosed’ now Proud, traditional too Farmers are like that, I recall seeing the droughts I woke to her weeping The land had once been parched, now so was he Unable to…

My heart goes pitter pat At the mention of his name And let’s not even say When he is in the vicinity It’s so sweet him being next to me It’s crazy how he makes me feel My heart goes pitter pat Every time he…

childhood among the sunflowers 🌻 suburban sunflowers bow to whimsical wooden swings bees fly summer breeze     Note: (Sunflowers and wooden swings are precious and meaningful to me, my father built me a wooden swing that I spent hours going back and forth pretending…

The empty swing invites all-comers to sit awhile to dangle, legs and dreams.   I stand and gently rock the empty swing warmed by the end of summer in fields of afterglow.   Sunflowers with heavy heads of seed turn their upward gaze towards the…

The ghost is here Sitting on the sill Looking over at me As I clean the room   My housemates don’t see The ghost is here They do not believe As I get that room clean   I try to explain but, I look so…

Talia meets her lover on Sundays at the swing, on the edge of the sunflower field. The busybodies would be in church, Their families out of sight, out of mind. Her girl puts a sunflower in her black wavy hair and smiles. They sit on…

Apparition peering over the edge of a world I believed I once knew everything has changed and how do I get my bearings? evil applauded, kindness mocked, and the innocent carry the biggest burden. when did caring and sharing become ‘woke’? what does that even…