Last Dance
Sitting, watching the last danceLovers once young, but now old and greystill entranced The music changes quickly nowThe dancing turns to art somehow Closed eyes let the pages turnThe...
- November 20, 2025
Rhythmic Stories
Country girls hand in hand
Country girls hand in hand Take my hands, she said with them stretched out wideCome closer and stand right next to me, get by my bedside I have something...
- October 26, 2025
Phoenix
In Greek mythology the Phoenix Represents hope, new beginnings, personal growth, and triumph over adversity. Ones Triumph over adversity Determination that saysYou’ll see. Hope rests in her heartShe...
- October 18, 2025
Life Matters
Life never mattered so muchUntil you take away the ability to touch The ease of movement your body makesNot the sting of pain that movement takes The sound of...
- October 15, 2025
56 Chevy
I will not cry, I will not crumbleYears rolled past. Life gives us tumbles Youth on our side, but we never realizedThe Life that we lived was the best...
- February 28, 2023
Escape
She could see the fog as it was billowing forth The wind had whipped through her; it came in from the north The smell of salt in the water...
- February 14, 2023
The Doldrums
The “doldrums” is a popular nautical term that refers to the belt around the Earth near the equator where sailing ships sometimes get stuck on windless winds. The Inter-Tropical Convergence...
- January 31, 2023
Mo Kree My Heart
Irish Mo chroí (moh Kree)– translated meansmy heartFrom the first breath, each had a unique start So many personalities, yet the heart beats as oneI will never stop loving...
- January 24, 2023
From the Blackjack Tree
I saw it from the blackjack treeMy big sister is getting her spanking justbefore me I shimmied up that tall blackjackThinking I was off my daddy’s pain track I...
- January 24, 2023
Absence
It takes time for a broken heart to healSo many emotions inside you can’t reveal You make your face an upturned smileLeaving sadness on the shelf for awhile The...
- January 16, 2023
Youths Door
I was a young girl thenrunning hillsides back when inhaling the clean airs summer breezehanging upside down in a blackjack tree laughter floating heavenwardmama smiles when it’s heard no...
- January 2, 2023
Daddy went out for MILK
Our Daddy went out to buy milk one dayNever to return, he left and went away Those were the words uttered by a young girlThat’s all she remembered about...
- December 29, 2022
Testing Your Mettle
Mettle is the courage to carry on. If someone wants to “test your mettle,” they want to see if you have the heart to follow through when the going gets tough....
- December 22, 2022
Wintertime
The cold set in silentlyovernightA grab for the coversI wrap tight The first foot hits the floorThe second goes down,a mad dash through the door warm socks now wrap...
- December 17, 2022
