Our Oxblood lilies Reliable sign of FallTough as September © Nancilynn Saylor 18 September 2017
Category: Poetry
“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 […]
Total eclipse of the heart
Eclipse casting shadeThrough light filtering Sycamore Good enough for me! ©Nancy SaylorAustin, Texas8/21/2017
Here in my Deep Purple dreams
August overtakes us, grasses brown- withering Purple shines on fence ©Nancilynn Saylor 20 August 2017
Mellow yellow
Sunshine-yellow bellsColor of deep, deep SummerDay dreams of autumn. Nancilynn Saylor 18 August 2017
Fire in the sky
Heat shudders-settles/ air heated by Sun’s bellows/ birds scree in orange dusk. ©Nancilynn Saylor 28 July 2017
Dust in the Wind
Sub-Saharan sand. . Blowing through Texas today. no rain there or here… Nancilynn Saylor 25 July 2017
Doubts
Clouds fill sky and thoughts toWhere my muse has scurried Empty-unfulfilled. ©Nancilynn Saylor July 2017
Here/ between day and fall of night/ thunder’s tease-no rain. ©Nancilynn Saylor 23 July 2017
“…at the twilight’s first gleaming…”
A patriot’s heart beats inside this aging breast Oh say can YOU see ? Nancilynn Saylor 4 July 3017