27 Sunday Jul 2025
Posted in Poetry
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Children, Dreams, Gratitude, Healing, Hope, Life, Love, Marriage, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Souls, Strength, Survival, Tuscan, Unity
a peaceful night
a Tuscan dream
of deep red wine
and beautiful cuisine
we danced below
the mellow moon
its light, approval,
of our outside room—
the love, the happiness
of family ties, in that moment
altered
from our saddened lives
26 Saturday Jul 2025
Posted in Poetry
he runs away in shame
crimson faced coward
once lover, husband
father, now stranger
denying you closure
as we debate, contemplate
is there any such thing
as an answer
that heals wounds
makes it okay
I say no, and you
believe me and wait
for the pain to fade
26 Saturday Jul 2025
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Authenticity, Death, Forgiveness, Loss, Love, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Soul, Survival, Truth, What is a Poem, Yearning
I prefer poetry
of imperfection
like my life
and its glorious
misdirection
less roses are red
violets are blue
more, what moves you
to cry, to laugh,
to lose sleep,
or fall to your knees
for mercy
25 Friday Jul 2025
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Death, Death Poems, Dying, Father, Loneliness, Poem, Poems, Poetry
Your death
came with certainty,
many years,
missed deadlines,
then, suddenly—
no more vagaries,
maybe this
or that
could save you,
or extend your life
even one day—no,
you were gone
in a way that,
three years later,
is still fully
disappeared.
25 Friday Jul 2025
Posted in Poetry
A little boy who dreamed
his parents in one house,
‘Stay dad, stay’
words from his mouth
but together again
was an impossible ask,
his sins were too great
to be taken back.
Instead, he walked away,
the family was split,
and only God knows
the rest of it.
24 Thursday Jul 2025
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Horse, Horse Poem, Horse Poems, Horse poetry, Horses, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Unity
We must move together
One mind, one soul
One body, one purpose
Says the herd
Bend our necks
To the ground
Bite off sweet blades of grass
One ear to the herd
The other to the sky
23 Wednesday Jul 2025
Posted in Poetry
though the years soften
pain, like a creek-stone
years of flowing water
a collection of our tears
washing over them
buffering the edges
of our mutual suffering
when it ceases to cry
it will be gone to sand
sifted to the oceans
22 Tuesday Jul 2025
Posted in Poetry
I promise you stars
on the darkest night,
the brightest among them
to make the wrongs right.
I promise you rain,
after a long drought,
to heal your heart,
and remove all your doubts.
I promise you summer flowers,
opening at your feet,
longing to empower
for the journey you’ll meet.
19 Saturday Jul 2025
Posted in Poetry
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Divorce, Family, Loneliness, Loss, Love, Mothers, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Women's Poems
Let me be your soft place
to land, the keeper
of your sorrows,
your homeland.
Wear me like onyx,
giving you the strength
to survive this loss,
the feeling of being tossed
off and abandoned.
My dear, let him go,
but know, his leaving
cannot destroy you.
11 Friday Jul 2025
Posted in Poetry
Tags
Death, Dying, Hope, Horse Poems, Horse poetry, Horses, Life, Loss, Love, Poem, Poems, Poetry, sentience, Spirit, Survival
Sentient and savant
Invisible wings
We dream of wild horses
The freedom they bring
What it means to survive
And fight, love,
and protect love
The simplicity of
water and grass
The simplicity of
life and death
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