A girl and her horse is a precious thing riding and galloping the pleasure the horse brings Nothing is like The feel of a horse galloping across a green field He’s 1200 pounds of muscle she can control, and he yields Her reigns to direct the path he goes A natural rhythm with her body…
Country Cousins
We were cousins all together we liked to Make mud cakesSisters Marilyn and Robin, myself and our cousins Jody and Jake We loved playing together on the top of our big hillContent to sit and talk and play sometimes we just sat still I was looking at a picture my mom had taken while we…
The Intruders
It happened on a warm late summer nightwe had just gone to bed and turned out all the lights back in the day, you could leave the door unlockedit was an age when neighbors would visit but didn’t need to knock in a small town people always knew each otherthe knocking was a formality and…
Pulling Taffy
Let’s pull some taffy on a Saturday nightDaddy had the recipe and he cooked it just right In our house, daddy always made the candyMom said it was because he was very handy He made popcorn balls, peanut brittle, and taffy the bestEverything else that was cooked for my mom it was left The taffy…
Ice Cream Dreams
When daddy would make ice cream on a hot Saturday night he would pack in crushed ice and rocksalt just right he would turn and churn and churn vanilla dreams in our minds burned with every pull of the handle up and down our eyes were open wide as we all sat around whoever was…
Grandads Swing
The M I M O S A When she blooms She’s elegant but her smell is her claim to fameThe tree of happiness is just one of its Chinese common names During my childhood, this was the tree where our tire swing hungThere was no way to count all the songs I had sung when…
Colors of Fall
When the wind comes up leaves shake and pranceBlowing this way and that, doing a colorful dance Each leaf different from the otherCreating a beautiful rainbow of colors But their beauty won’t last longSo watch them artfully float along Soon they’ll end up on the groundWatch them fall while they can be found
NORMAL
These are different times we’re living inPeople are anxious and wondering when Normal times return againNormal was never there back when We long for unending peaceful livesFree from hunger, death, and strife Everywhere you look you see beauty aboundsDesigns and colors and creations sounds I focus on creation when troubles ariseTry and see things from…
Mama’s Cotton Dress
My mama wore only dresses back in the dayMaybe in the fifties, that was just the way Wide-brimmed garden hats that had country charmPillbox hats and summer gloves weren’t much good on a farm She had a few dresses of pale colors made of cottonThe popular styles of the day she never would have gotten…
Buckaroo or Cowpuncher
On a late spring morning in West Texasriding through pasture overgrown with brush cowpunchers pushed a calf into a clearingThe animal needed to be roped if it was a yearling The cowboy throws a loop around the yearling’s neck and hears it mournThe calf can’t escape the rope tied to the Cowboys saddle horn A…