Sunshine and Storms

Sunshine and Storms Virginia Carraway Stark One day you’re coming Going is fine Coming up the street Sunshine on your shoulders Clouds crossing your path A delight in the sky Rain pelting your your path Refreshing and fine Only to return And to find a…

Bandage my fingers

Bandage my fingers Virginia Carraway Stark The road is at my feet again I take a tentative step forward I can’t wait to see How each time I crest Each new horizon I fall in love With every view Again and again And how there…

Waiting, soon

Waiting, soon Virginia Carraway Stark On this summer day the day slowly brightening from a constenance of gloom to one of brightness hope that I’ve cherished holding swaddled and tight so that it can’t spread it’s wings fly away leaving me bereft that sweet butterfly…

Endless Beach

Virginia Carraway Stark If I had the dream That we should be the only ones Alive in a world of two And we found away To do away With all those things That we fear so well and true I know you’d come away with…

What was that dream?

What was that Dream Virginia Carraway Stark What was that dream I woke up from That left me so soft and sad? What sorrow woke me From what shores of golden slumber To troubled waves of darkened distress? How glad I am to have that…

2019 Sexy Zebra

Sexy Zebra Virginia Carraway Stark Laying like a sexy zebra I didn’t get no sleep I was thinking heavy thoughts About love and sex and death and life And all those other things That keep us zebras up at night I wasn’t able to close…

Wooden Hearts

Wooden Hearts Virginia Carraway Stark Bonsai trees Float in a purple sky As the hoot of an owl Echoes through the forest Where restless spirits roam And trees uproot themselves To follow their wooden hearts And the loves that call To them on owls wings…

Night

Night Virginia Carraway Stark Darkness settles In the wind and the mist That rise up from the wild clay soil Like a cool cloak Of dark moon splendour The gloaming is alive With tendrils of fog that seek All that is warm and safe Stars…

Sacrifice

Sacrifice Virginia Carraway Stark Down they pushed him His head under the soil And under the wheels Of the combine harvester Blood for the crops His young face Once full of smiles and his young body With his knocked knees And a scrape that He…

Hugs :-)

Hugs <3 🙂 Virginia Carraway Stark Hugs across the miles Bring me tons of smiles Because I know You are glad I am alive And happy that I'm in your world And when you send me '<3' It means the world to me Because I…