It has been six weeks since my fiftieth high school reunion. I had the pleasure of staying a day with friends in the small town of Floresville,Texas about 30 miles southeast of San Antonio. Bonnie and I were buddies our Senior year, eating lunch together almost every day, along with Claudia, another friend. We were, […]
Category: Life
Another broken morning
They did not know when they brushed their teeth and washed their Sunday morning faces … To join with their friends in worshipTo be in a house of the Lord As they filed into their small whiteunassuming, country church greeting each other with smiles on a bright Central Texas dayMen shaking handsWomen nodding to one […]
It’s a turned down day
Dappled gray morning skyBeyond the curtained windowTufted titmice feed. © Nancilynn Saylor20 October 2017Picture: view from my chair
“Flowers in her hair, flowers everywhere”
"Your hair is like mums,"Words murmured fifty years pastToday, mums remind. ©Nancilynn Saylor15 October 2017
End of the innocence
I miss the freedoms we knew/When we were still young/ Scales covered our eyes. © Nancilynn Saylor12 0ctober 2017
Mr Moonlight
October full moon setFills dawn's inky blacknessSycamore stands watch Nancilynn Saylor5 October 2017
“Sing for your supper and you’ll get breakfast! Songbirds always eat…”
Northern Cardinals, Tufted Titmice, and Chickadees, and thean occasional Sparrow or two,drop in and fly out of the feeders as if it were the checkout line at a cafeteria White Wing Doves know they are safe at the big wooden feeder in the Sycamore tree; it's hunting season but still they gorge as if is […]
Mellow yellow
Sunshine-yellow bellsColor of deep, deep SummerDay dreams of autumn. Nancilynn Saylor 18 August 2017
Moon River
The whirring fanBrushed aside the lacey curtainsFull moon heartbeats. Nancilynn Saylor 8 August 2017
Photographs and Memories
Long ago and far away. another place and time memories remain. ©Nancilynn Saylor 30July 2017 Photograph from 1972 in Kansas (before storms blew that life away)
Nancilynn is Writing again 