When the roses are in bloom, they wash away my gloom. When the Hummingbird flies Inside my heart, I sigh When the squirrels are chasing tails in the air, racing. I hear the turtle doves COO, It’s a sad little blue, That seems to melt my heart through. When the leaves...
Some days, the memories flow On other days, no thoughts will show The mind is such an incredible thing, and yet it can be so fragile The edges of clarity it can bring, then shadows invade for a while The days and weeks seem to fly right by So many happy...
Her heart bleeds and is now forever brokenbecause too many ugly words you’ve spoken It would be best if you moved on down the roadDon’t look back. That is the dating code The lady gave you many chancesBut your words hurled deadly lances Now she’s moving on aloneSo, please don’t call...
I saw what I wanted to seeI arranged it how I wanted it to be But the photographs reveal it allit took me years to finally see the fall Smiling faces and laughter aboundI took it in. I loved its sound The smiles that I snapped that dayAs I look back...
School Days The smell of Mom’s baked cookies hung in the sultry Air.The Children alight with sleepy eyes, and a line forms to a bathroom. We all share Brushed teeth and washed facesAll lined up orderly in our places Sack lunches clinched tightly in our fistListening to mamas dos and don’t...
Front porch rockers screechNature is around you to teach You got out of bed todayDetermine in your head to stay Someone is worse off than youTry putting your feet in their shoes Each day carries its own struggleKeep moving ahead; you can juggle You didn’t sign up for thisAt least you...
Large, showy, pure blue flowers with a prominent yellow central boss produce in late Spring. When viewed by passersby a long gasp, they always seem to bring The plant is valued as ornamental but is notably challenging to growin ordinary garden conditions. Though perennial, it can be a short-lived show The...
To do something “once in a blue moon” is to do it very rarely: “That company puts on a good performance only once in a blue moon. Source: theidioms.com The blue moon is the full moon that appears a second time in the same calendar month, and this phenomenon happens only once...
Spurs and bootsCowboy hoots Cowboys Saturday nightDrinks and barroom fights Monday morning bluesPulling on cowboy shoes Lots of Leather and rawhideShouts in the air as they ride Rounding up little moosForgetting Monday morning blues The boots pointed toesHelped fit the stirrup holes Locking the feet in their placesThe day would have...
I will see you againMy friendSo much love saved for when We meet again in a peaceful sceneWhen life is a happier scheme Young enough to run the steepest hillsideNo doors in our house, and the windows open wide We will mount our horses and ride everywhereStay out all night, and...
