Once Soft and Smooth
Soft, soothing hands would rock a crying son To sleep; would clap and cheer when he would run; Then work anew ’til household chores were done. Smooth, loving hands would comb a daughter’s hair, Sew …
Category: Sentiment
Torch Song
Remember the Soldier Pass, orange rocks punched by water into seven wormholes painted on a cliff that bled into the horizon. Or the Hudson River, gray palisades growing into taller and straighter marble giants as our …
Heaven Blessed
Let me tender such devotion for the gift of happiness,With this heaven sent emotion I am well and truly blessed. For the joy of all my senses I am humbled and bemused,Love shall break down …
It’s Hard to Explain
Ants will visit every feast.If the potato salad has mustard and sweet pickles,I can put up with crawlers.And if I can have melody and rhythm,I’ll deal with some noise.Clouds’ soft, intertwining folds are such,rain is …
The Old Man in the Mist
A lonely path through clouded memories his fading mind once sharp and clear, now lost in hazy fusion, time betrayed by hours no longer counted in his universe. Yet hesitantly climbing misty steps his feet …
Mud and Honey
Her sentimental spirit washes freewhen clay and sediment come sliding down,so if she cries, a man is bound to seea river in her eyes but twice as brown.I hold her breadth of heart in high …
The Christmas Gift
Now milking’s just an awful chore, it happens twice a day; no matter what you want to do, it’s always in the way. And every day at 4 AM, dad roused me from my bed …
Blur of Fur
A blur of fur, it scurries quickly but I hear a meeo-ow, tender, loving, warm. Only, yesterday her eyes, they shimmered sapphire. Now flecks of gold in pools of jade, they glint. To touch her …