Poems

Butterfly Wings

Photo by Suzy Hazelwood from Pexels For every grieving generation: Butterfly wingsAnd strings of firefly lights in the nightThose wondrous thingsTo find in children’s smiles! But at a price – the randomness of life.Butterflies and firefly lives aren’t free, you see. Time grants its holy moments, but never forever,When the joy of life is simple, […]

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Scott

Scott had a way of looking at life ajar. He loved preparing fine food. He found a soul in Hickory Hill I could never find. He asked questions, Why? But never faltered when they weren’t answered. He lived a life inside his stride Without much guilt or blame. Life grants us Scotts from time to

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Phoebus Moon

Photo by Mo Eid from Pexels O Phoebus Moon, you fill our soulful nightsWith murmurs of the years remembered by.The glowing, growing circles tearful ofThe smiles and joys and touch caressed, beloved. No greater truth than time transfixes life.Persists beyond resistance of good bye.Resistance of the longings of the heart.Beyond the wish upon the farthest

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Make America Bonnie Again

Photo by Pixabay from Pexels The wedding partyJoy aboundingBright and perfect autumn dayPicture-taking in the parkWhen late the bridegroom chanced to seeAn old manSittingOn a benchWooden and aloneAnd went to himTo ask of himFor some bonnie news.But he just smiled and turned his headAnd this is what the grey beard said:“Ugly,” Americans once were calledMake

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