Country Colored Memories
Life is pumping in everything
Animals and plants are all living things
Your eyes spy colors yellow and green
Morning sky and dew on the grass seen
Look around, and you will see
Shifting sands and shimmering seas
Morning lights
The sun ignites
Stop and watch the sun emerge
Giving us our energy surge
Life’s hearts pumping every day
Because God designed it perfect that way
The show cost nothing, So open your mind
you’ll be amazed by what you will find
On cool autumn eveningsMy mama would always bring A chair or two outsideTo watch her brood playing We mostly ran down country roadsStopping briefly and playing with toads We would play outside after darkUntil the opossums made the dogs bark...
The hands of the clock reach for every moment in front of it There’s no going back to try and catch lost hours, and yet One day those hands will be no more Time will not matter, no more clock...
In the wintertime of my world as a childI have to admit we children got pretty wild when the snow would pile up real highmom didn’t let us always go outside the winters were a cold and bitter time for...
The memory of watching mama’s mouth turn upwards into a smileI have kept Safe through the years; it’s helped me thru life’s miles Even to this day, I can see Her smile, the image somewhat fadedIt was clear to me...