• Poetry

    Everyone Needs a Friend Like This

    She has a shoreline smile Below wheatfield hair, A crescent of white land For shipwrecked hearts. Like a bow, she’ll draw you Over the strings–no matter If you’re in good tune– Until you can hear what she hears That’s sweet…

  • Poetry

    Lookin’ For Hope In All The Right Places

    A visionary in vintage clothing, A hymn’s longing in faded jeans, Rummaging through objets d’art Or searching for stars in empathic eyes Twinkling over facemasks. The tea leaves in my old hiking boots Laugh like Gibraltar itself At such good…

  • Poetry

    Invitation from the Queen of Hearts

    Meringue images, A la mode memories Of safer days Fluff my pillow at moonrise. I made contact with our future Four years ago. Will the knave of hearts Be up to thievery? We are suspended in pandemic, No bowl-of-cherries trance…

  • Poetry

    Horse Sense From A Night Mare

    So much inside that wants to get out, To get out all at once, it seems. How open am I to allow what is wanting to happen? How willing am I to let go, surrender, release, express, unleash? Seems easier…

  • Poetry

    Ancients Among Us

    Look for the Ancients who live among us They carry great wisdom for graceful evolution They take many earthly forms So all may inherit their treasures Listen to the Ancients who care deeply for life They whisper the light of…

  • Poetry

    A Silken Shore

    Dreaming of a silken shore Where eagerness meets water’s edge And nature takes me to places unknown Wrapped in the allure of softer, brighter moments Take me to a silken shore Beyond well-worn paths of rootless woes And allow the…

  • Poetry

    Soul Touch

    Quietly, gently, softly Speak the names of those on your heart Send their souls messages of love Peppered with your touches Every little thought and feeling matters Every little moment can be splendid Quietly, gently, softly Imagine those whose heart…

  • Poetry

    Came the Dawn Trotting

    morning, morning. came the dawn trotting spongy over the mellow turf with dew. and then the warmth raised the mist to sip it and quenched were the night’s dark candle and the morning’s thirst. dancing, dancing. came your love calling…