Category: Poetry

Do you know how beautiful she is? – with her peachy complexion, and her big blue skies – not just her hills and valleys… But her true character, Love. She can’t help herself. She loves people. She loves plants, animals, trees, the ocean, rivers, creeks, and all the forests and deserts of the Earth… Even… Continue reading Do You Know How Beautiful She Is?

May is just a promise, but… Come June I slide into the languorous days of summer. By July I have declined into complete debauchery. Feasting on ripe plums, apricots, nectarines, melons, and peaches. Munching huge salads and piles of BBQ chicken with cobs of sweet corn, creamy potato salad with lots of celery, relish, and… Continue reading The Swell Season

Push me again on the swing, my young love… Push me again – higher still – until we fly away together… On the lawn looking up at the clouds We are in a safe place to nestle in each other’s arms… Now while we dream of flying! Push me again on the swing, My Old Love. Push me again…… Continue reading The Swing

I would have searched for you by now, My LOVE, my sweet. Searching for your mouth upon my breast … You would have found me running barefoot through the night streets. We would have found our love for thrice we met before: Delivering boxes of vegetables to the needy in town, Standing at a bar… Continue reading Searching

What has gone before has led to the path today … to this time. Isolated – an old woman happy in solitude… with her own company. Companionship she found at the heart of  a love match … an old marriage. He found her wounded, held her in his broad arms, and gentled her like a wild animal. After decades of… Continue reading Contentment