“The Gift” Your steps quicken As memories awaken As you journey home As you hurry, hurry home… For you remember A magical lighting of the face! There is no sweeter place, No finer grace Than the gift Glowing From your child’s Eyes.
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“The Garden Wizard”
“The Garden Wizard” Stirs my garden elf… from bud to violets-bold Bromeliads now bloom whom in my mother’s day, they grow mid-air! Now daisy’s gold ooze up from dampened earth grateful for the share! A wondrous magic , soon from natures mystic gloom. I rescued bromeliads from a neighbor who moved and left the…
Read MoreWintry Haiku
Wintry Haiku One, last, drop of ice slips the fingertips of roof falls to nothingness. Frozen Tanka One, last, hushed, droplet… Surrenders its final breath, Ice crystals melted… Mutterings of winged things Push pale winter into spring.
Read More“A 1940’s Christmas”
“A 1940’s Christmas” Green fir arms dressed in red crepe circles; taped. Thread the popcorn, nestled close. Sprinkle limbs with silvered swirls: icicles. Christmas eve metamorphose. (Few on this site were even BORN when I was decorating this tree ) A Le Sizain Hétérométrique Poem. The poem consists of 6 lines only. The…
Read MoreSanta is Lost!
“Santa is Lost!” His sleigh with reindeer gone; last seen on chimney-top! Snow flurries fell and buried all; red-jellied laugh of Santa smothered in white silence.
Read MoreThe Angel in the Cobweb
There are so many amazing Yiddish words that found their way into the English language, and we thought it would be great to highlight one. To find one with a third definition, however, was not so easy. We thought all was lost until we stumbled upon this gem.tush – See more at: http://www.trifectawritingchallenge.com/#sthash.9NAHOSQf.dpuf There are…
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