Category: Poetry

Until we meet again…

Sunday in Church , I prayed for an end to my sister’s suffering. The cancer and the treatments had ravaged her body. She was afraid to die and very sad. I could feel the passing would be soon. I was already very sad as it was it was the anniversary of my oldest son’s death. […]

Heavenly

The scent of this morning’s Fresh plucked Magnolia blossom Fills the room tonight. One of my favorites… One I cannot explain to my own satisfaction, Much less to another. Tonight, I am reminded of the first time I smelled Magnolia and how the adrenaline swelled through my body while Angels infused the air. Spring. Charleston. […]

Into the wide open

We recently completed our most recent trip around the Sun another year encoded in the history book of life as we know it on this small blue oasis in the milky way in my world the temperate weather had streaks of cold, icy weeks, even snow. Though aches in my old bones, I still managed […]

Behind blue eyes

Today we celebrate our son, Mike on the occasion of his 46th birthday.He was not with us for so many birthdays Lost in a world where mom's andDads don't go except in the nightmares Of their minds when sleep curls up in a cold corner of the dark roomAnd they can only stare silently at […]