Winter returns now To this place I call home Wind-borne,silvery, bouffant clouds . ©Nancilynn Saylor January 2017
Category: These are a few of my favorite things!!!
Weekend winding down
Today there were highs and lowsI went to see a high school musical this afternoon. My eldest son Steve was a theatre arts person in school and was very good at it. We spent lots of time over four years watching as the students learned their craft and bloomed on stage. Today, one of his […]
Winter weekend
Canning today A half case of tomatoes Homemade spaghetti sauce! Nancilynn Saylor January 2017 Spaghetti sauce
Nightfall
through the nearly barren tree Sliver of moon swelling overhead Makes sleep come tonight. Nancilynn Saylor 2017 January
Winter’s approach
Brisk dry air with 23 degrees. Sun shimmers on autumn colors Winter solstice nears… Nancilynn Saylor, December 2016
“…To her place by the river”
Yesterday we learned that one of my “ultimate” poets, Leonard Cohen, had passed away. He had been part of my life for half a century. I read his poetry while I hung out in the library my junior and senior years of high school in the late 1960s. For some serendipitous occasion our lives crossed […]
Poem for a Zebra Long wing
I watch you dip and fly dancing, leaf to leaf, taking ease any place you land- eluding my lens as if I mean to steal your soul. Your visage burns into my memory I have no designs on your soul- just an image to sustain me through winter’s coming chill. © Nancilynn Saylor Photo of […]
Winds of change
Sometimes sleep comes late into the night then rising creates challenges. Will my day mirror the world outside my door? I ponder my own statement as I step into the gray soupy fog that blankets the drive. Out of sync with myself, morning coffee delayed by an hour or more… instead of […]
In a month’s time
I go again, soon … for dawn and dusk on the shoreline. insignificant to some, the Texas shore now my “ocean.” It’s not that I have not dipped toes into an authentic ocean, for I have; but the baggage that came with living in an ocean state was too weighty at the time. Texas! At […]
Books in the mail
Not much finer treat- Books to savor, get lost in You know where I’ll be! Nancilynn Saylor September 2016
Nancilynn is Writing again 