Open the windowand in-flu-enza —an epidemic joke not followed by laughterDark humor to avoid tearsOpen the windowLet sunshine and fresh air inBreathe deep, fill your lungsFor the moment it is…
Before the age of high school yearbooksthere were simple autograph bookswith blank pages filled, not only with signatures,but thoughts from friends and family.Sometimes silly, sometimes sincere,sometimes a little of both.Though…
She saved the china handed down through generationsfor special occasions,but no occasion seemed special enoughto run the risk of chipping a plate.She ooh-ed and ahh-ed over clothes gifted to herfor…
April is Poetry Month, and you know what that means. It’s time for us to celebrate poetry in all its forms. Traditionally, my way of doing that is to attempt…
World Poetry Day, March 21, 2026 It’s believed the first known poem appeared 4,000 years ago in Babylon. Poetry lives inside us all, whether we acknowledge it or not. The…
Your dreams were small,except for those you loved.You wanted little.Your needs were few.You had nothing of valuesave for what was in your heart,and that bounty overflowed—a never ending waterfall that…
They say a pictureis worth a thousand words.Look closely.The truth is there.Some cheese smilesare brighter than others,some are just cheesy. Are the people standing too close?Or striving for distance?It’s clear…
Hey, it’s February and you know what that means. Valentine’s Day is coming up to try to warm our hearts during the February chill. Considering how frigid it’s been across…
Diamonds in the treessparkle in the sun.Random beauty caughtby the icy cold.I think about tearsfloating in zero gravity,trapped in bare branches.Inside the heat cracklesand tears fall as nature intended.Beauty is…
I am a childbouncing on my father’s laplaughing as he chants a German nursery rhyme about a bird that ends with tickles and laughterI am a childbegging my mother to…
Are memories like snowflakes,falling on our eyelashes,so beautiful, so easily dissolved?Are they like dust motesthat float in the sunlight,or bring a tear to the eyebefore dissolving into the mist?The wind…
