I felt my heart impregnable
But you came one unexpected day
Offering a white gardenia
And all my time-built walls
Just melted away
#LoveandPoetry #LoveandGifts
Since our last farewell
how I long for you!
Like the wind
and this winter coast
with its roaring waves,
my heart yearns toward the sea,
calls: Come back to me!
And when the summer
Returns with moon-sky
Bright with silver stars
I will wait for you
Where red roses bloom.
#LovePoetry #LoveLost
The city at dawn
with every crevice white…
and still the snow falls
#SnowandPoetry #WinterandPoetry
We could have given something real,
Something tender,
In the black sleep of our time,
But we left them alone with their dreams,
Cruel dreams,
Shadows burning the street.
God forgive us ALL our crime.
#Compassion #Regret #RacialViolence #CivilRightsRiots
Whisper soft
. Snow covers
. sky
. hill
. field
. road
. Snow frosts
. tree
. path
. windowsill
Whisper soft
. white dream
. covers all
#WinterandPoetry #SnowPoetry
In attic silence
The dusty dreams sleep
Shrouded in shadowed whisperings.
Webbed-in, remote and dignified,
These unforgotten once sparkled
In the young burnished sun
Like golden tambourines.
Released from veiled slumber,
Brought into today,
Would they be luster-lost
And songless now?
Ah, well, and even so,
Let the magician-voiced vendor
Call his striking wares
Sharp as polished silver:
. New dreams, new dreams,
. New dreams for old
No one will lean from this unshuttered window
To make the trade, for then
The Aladdin heart might break.
#DreamsandMemory #AladdinandPoetry
I’d like the millions, believe me, I would!
And I’d joy to spend them knowing I could
Just take my ease without worry or pause
And extend my largesse to many a cause.
One question though. Can you advise?
Will winning the dough, and what that implies
Prove not half the fun of pie in the sky?
But I won’t think of that; let that thought just die.
If I win the millions, I’ll make a nice try
To be prudent and wise. O, why should I lie?
If the dream really happens, why, I’ll be so high
I know what I’ll do. I’ll buy and I’ll buy.
#LotteryHumor #LotteryAdvice #HumorandPoetry
I felt the footfall of a dream
steal up the stairs of my heart
Ecstatic, silent, heard it impart
the wonder of His story
And all my soul within grew bright
In the dream I too beheld the light
#ChristmasPoetry #ChristmasMeaning
Good friends
and family
Warm thoughts
and loving hearts
Make Christmas dreams
. come true
Christmas is
the smell of woodsmoke,
spices, oranges, frost
Christmas is
the sound of singing and
laughter bells
Christmas is
a soldier coming home
Christmas is
a child—the gift greater
than all dreaming
Christmas is
remembering
anticipating
being
Christmas is
HOPE
#ChristmasPoetry #ChristmasMoments #Christmas