The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. Summer Interrupted Winter’s deepest peace was designed to gather strength for summer, the time for hardest work. So were my reflections remembering my horse that winter evening. We kept our commitments which swept…

In the car again for my pay The warm glow of GPS lights my way The mountains hide the sun’s ray Another hectic, long day My family locked in my weary heart To draw strength from when we’re apart Tackling problems according to the chart…

If the woods are lovely, dark and deep As Robert Frost shared in Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,  I would rather flip the page and leap I would rather move on and enjoy the evening   Why bother with a scary wood When I can…

“Stopping by woods on a-” Stop Right there Do not continue I hate that poem Twenty times I heard that poem in the same year They kept playing the same Reading Rainbow episode every time they wanted to put something on just to occupy us…

in my darkest nights restkess thoughts are roused by ghosts of what might have been

    water is so cool Don’t think it’s a fool Where there is water There is life to mankind It’s ambrosia to everyday Sometimes it hugs with fondness Sometimes it tears down life with anger Some time it creates fear Some time it drowns…

Text Prompt Read Robert Frost’s poem Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,  chose one line or phrase, and with credit, write a poem with that line or phrase in it. Prompt partially contributed by Se Johnson. Image Prompt Photo by Rayson Tan on Unsplash…

Emotions raging on hope and despair they rise floating untethered

Doesn’t it remember you? The last time it tapped your crown The first time it rinsed you down From your birth stool Why doesn’t it remember you? The last time you sat for hours Muddied like it had been your first shower in months How…

You are already drowning the waves of life push and toss you your body is tired of the burden   “stay afloat” you hear people say the promised help isn’t forthcoming maybe the hope you need lies on the other side of life maybe the…