Tag: writing from the heart
|
September 08, 2008 04:50 PM EDT --
Have you wondered where I've been?
I blinked and lost my way.
Endless barrens.
more
|
|
October 07, 2008 11:11 AM EDT --
Don't ask about his mornings
What he likes in his coffee
or if he chases vitamins with protein drinks.
Don't ask about favorite new bands
Opera
or Oldies.
It is past time for . . .
more
|
|
December 19, 2006 11:13 AM EST --
It is late, and everyone has gone to bed. I am alone in the glow of the Christmas tree and as I put the last of the glasses into the dishwasher, I take a moment to look out the . . .
more
|
|
December 29, 2006 12:54 PM EST --
Letdown
Presents opened and put away
Cookies stale and crumbled
Naked tree waiting to go back behind the basement stair
House in total disarray
Emails to answer and bills to . . .
more
|
|
December 30, 2006 01:16 PM EST --
The Colors of Life
A new year, a clean slate
Much like the rush of opening the 64 box of crayons for the first time
Or being the lucky one
To have the first swirl from the peanut butter . . .
more
|
|
April 10, 2007 08:33 AM EDT --
Sitting in a life, surrounded by friends
Feeling such a struggle as problems never end
People ask the question, but don’t hear the reply
Easier to smile, and let the day go by
Strange . . .
more
|
|
November 28, 2007 12:02 AM EST --
Night out with the girls, the smile on your face
Hides the pain in your heart, but, I know it is there
One lost soul in a group of eight, whose life is falling apart
A secret shared . . .
more
|
|
July 19, 2007 08:36 AM EDT --
My daughter called me night before last and said, “I have the best life!” She told me she was standing at the very top of the Swiss Family Treehouse, sipping on a Dole . . .
more
|
|
July 26, 2007 09:13 PM EDT --
You steal into my day
Taking over, taking time
I drug you and try to wash you away
Yet you will not go
I did not ask for your companionship
I do not want you here
You have nothing to offer . . .
more
|
|
October 13, 2008 03:25 PM EDT --
We wore our mother's nail polish
Passion pink or
Candyapple red
boys and girls alike
under not on our nails.
Only the very lucky
escaped the epidemic.
I considered myself so
. . .
more
|
|
December 01, 2007 10:41 PM EST --
You built
something that floated in the bathtub
something motorized that amazed me.
Everyone gave me
a hard time for buying
such an expensive Christmas gift
for such . . .
more
|
|
July 13, 2007 10:07 AM EDT --
It has been months now since the love of your life
Fell to his knees in death, when no one was watching
He was too young, too loud, and too stubborn
It simply could not be happening, to you and all . . .
more
|
|
October 28, 2006 01:04 PM EDT --
I was there and felt your pain when he hit you.
That was me.
When you cried yourself to sleep because your nightmares were real.
That was me.
Everytime "he" touched you and you hurt so much afterwards. . . .
more
|
|
January 03, 2007 10:23 AM EST --
. . .
more
|
|
March 09, 2007 10:09 AM EST --
I heard the spring sounds
The song of the birds
Filled the air with music
I saw the spring sights
A small bud on a dogwood tree
Promise of beauty to come
. . .
more
|
|
April 13, 2007 08:12 AM EDT --
When the balmy spring days that feel like summer
Take a sudden u-turn and snow begins to fall
There is an unwanted guest left behind
The slight scratching in the throat
A tiredness behind the eyes . . .
more
|
|
June 01, 2007 06:21 PM EDT --
The year was 1977 and two kids
Who happened to be married
Were taking their first vacation
To the happiest place on earth
They scrimped and they saved
He found the $52 room price alarming . . .
more
|
|
July 03, 2007 10:08 PM EDT --
Families get together to wave the red, white and blue
Picnic baskets are packed, grills are ready
Eggs are deviled and corn is shucked
It is Independence Day in America
Boys are fighting, faces . . .
more
|
|
October 15, 2008 03:07 PM EDT --
This is what they said about the forecast:
Scattered storms across the area.
This is what I saw
Deep gray-blue cumulous towers
first behind the mountains
then hiding them.
This is what I felt: . . .
more
|
|
March 07, 2007 02:21 PM EST --
We are a dying breed
The long time married
To high school sweethearts or college friends
In it for the long haul
"You're so lucky" people say
Luck has little to do with . . .
more
|
|
|
|
