What will it take to soften, To relax our bitter stance, To set down our unyielding views, And give goodness a chance. How can we blur the edges, Of our illusions snug and dear, To make way for new vistas,…

I see you, Sweet Viola, With your velvet smile so bright, You touch us with your splendor, And lift us with your light. Whisper your quiet wisdom, As direct as you are coy, Call us to your beauty, Tempt us…

Hardship shapes our Being, It marks our DNA, It orients our choices, And forms our everyday. Some call hardship to them, Some push it away, Some clutch it like a mantle, In the middle of the fray. Hardship is a…

Riverstones Behold the beauty of river stones, These elements smooth as eggs. Just so does friendship mold our souls, Edges slowly rounded in the wash of time. Small separate words, events, places, hugs Make up the stream, but behold! The…

Sewing seeds contented, In the garden of my heart, Gives me reassurance, That love will do its part. To invest in ‘All Is Well’-ness, Is a choice beyond my fear, A firmly laid foundation, For all that I hold dear.…

Where are you, Tender One? I am looking for you and I sense you near, Calling you closer, Though it seems you are hesitant to show yourself. I understand. I know you have shown yourself many times only To be…

When you were born my wish came true And you transformed my precious world, For though the boys brought treasure new You became my favorite girl. There’s something mythic in your eyes, In hair so straight it shuns a curl;…

Dancing gives you wings to an aerie place From whence you get a god’s-eye space. Up there, you soar above your strife And tears, your memories of past life. There is only this now, and you twirl. You comb the…

Selfish…  Self-ish, Oh, how you get a bad rap! You’ve been tangled, twisted, distorted, deformed, Made to be the rotten carrot to dangle, The hot potato to get rid of the moment you’re in hand. You’ve been oversimplified, misunderstood, manipulated…

In this unprecedented (in our lifetime) pandemic-driven retreat into home sheltering, moments of reflection come and invite me in. It’s like a dollop of opportunity for life review, but hardly a linear process. It’s more like smatterings and brief meaningful…