Viola Love
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…
Love’s Invitation
Love’s invitation arrived at the door of my heart, gently urging me to open. Open to what I do not know. I sense the time is now, but why? Saying yes is a choice to surrender, trusting I will be…
It Happened
In the safety of solitude, respect and reverence fully in tact, I unleash my heartbroken fury with a vengeance. . . I activate my violence, revenge, hostility and murderous rage. I cross the edges of my caring, my cowardice and…
On Hardship
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…
River stones
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…
The Fog
It is a day like any other, though I woke up feeling different. Stirred, shaken, uneasy. . . disrupted somehow, though my mind cannot measure or make sense of this disturbance. As I move through the hours, I encounter frayed…
Growing Contentment
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.…
Promise
Can you sense the promise while enduring a time of hardship? I am currently enveloped in a stress-laden, iron-gray cloud of challenges as vowed caretaker of my beloved partner with his advancing Parkinson’s, as primary breadwinner while most of my…
Home, Sweet, Home
Here I am… open, present, inviting connection. All is quiet in my world, my solitude a welcome oasis. Here I allow my body and mind to rest. Here I listen to the whispers beyond the hush. Here I let love…
Seeking Tenderness
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…
