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Category Archives: Family
To douse with verse
Content with flow
Words in verse
Like a fire hydrant
A spring flood cascade
Filling easement
Into wild yonder
Equal to task
The raging fire
Quench its thirst
Rise quickly
New life
When words are few
When words are few
Each worth a thousand
Times more
A short verse
Font on white page
Reveals a heart full
In your presence
Depth of silence
Means the world
Home is
Wanderers walk the earth
Meet at the river's edge
Admire exotic plants
Found the world over.
Place is where lives meet.
Sacred, like a mother's love
To lover's unknown
Our people are home
From little things…
Golden rays of sunshine
Glimmer on bouncing curls
Corduroy overalls
Bright red buttons
Boots dancing
On edge of pond
Squeals, little fists
Giggling at ducks and geese
Almost as big as me
I pick her up
Plonk on my knee
Give her gentle squeeze
Soft tummy quivers
With laughter and ease
I lay out my palm
Little fists uncurl within
A nest for soft duckling
She looks up suddenly
Bright blue eyes
Brows raised
Little hands wipe
Tears from my face
Small arms stretch
Around my neck
My inner child
Soothes me today
Longer days
How could one possibly
Be taught to scorn
Longer days
When sunshine's warm
Rare endemic flora unfolds
Windows of blue sky
Open over able peaks
Shrines in the sky
Faithful wanderers
Climb for the high
While dark corners
Cinema, pub, theatre
Empty except for me
Wonder how it came to be
Nocturnal creature
Tucked away
While restless legs
Search far away
Home is where
Burrow keeps
Drifting heart
Returns to sleep
Words cascading
If I couldn't write
To the one I love
All the words
Spill over
Into tears
Every night
Invention of hope
Is not so much a title
As a confession
Piggy back fingers
Plastic white keys
Crawling like mother spiders
Carrying plump babies
Star charts and milk shakes
At red velvet lounge
Coaxed so gently, never pushed
To play as long as life allows
So swiftly she overtakes me
As our web of dreams wash away
Hands dance along to weave
New memories for us
All the while reminding
Of the years we invested
Together, playing and singing
Preparing for the day
To fill the spaces
When the tune escapes me
Cosy
Young mother treads by
Soft bundle wrapped on warm chest
Just like long ago
Soothe
Gentle touch
A mother's words
Soothes my need
Let it be enough
Count the stars of heaven 