Category: My Work
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How Can I Help?
How Can I Help? How can I help? I sense your need. I can hear it in the tenor of your voice, The trembling in your lips. I see it in the desperation of your eyes. A surrender to forces you no longer control. Can we reach that point with dignity intact? That is the…
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Vignette
Vignette A glance over your shoulder, Your eyes demurely cast my way, To capture the essence of that moment. Would take a thousand words And still fall short of doing justice To the vision before my eyes.
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Summoned to King George’s Army
Summoned To King George’s Army Marching, marching in a row Through thicket and bracken, by forest and lake Ordered redcoats by your side Neath skies and stars so unfamiliar In a land that is not your own. King George’s men came marching through, Left in their wake the wails of children. They sought to crush…
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Maypole
Maypole Spinning round the ribbon’d Maypole Aprons, skirts and crinolines akimbo Weave in and out in patterns so dizzying Pagan celebration of spring’s renewal Music and laughter cast up to the sky. Billowing tents around shapely legs Laughing eyes and smiling lips Cheeks as pink as summer peaches Call out to young beaus of longing…
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Haiku #27 – A Glance
A Glance Your eyes cast my way It would take a thousand words To capture your glance
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Ideas
Ideas So much to tell. Words bubble like molten lava Rising to the surface, bursting forth In pyroclastic fury Creating the first firmament. Life as we know it Evolved on this spinning globe, Moved from sea to land Taking hold in microscopic stages Invisible In human scale. Now building islands of ideas For new life…
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Haiku #26 – Writer’s Block
Writer’s block, dread words For those who toil to inscribe All they hope to tell
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A Cradle Lullaby
A Cradle Lullaby A Cradle Lullaby A Cradle Lullaby Hush, hush my little one No more tears and no more fears. These four walls and my embrace Will dry your desperate, frantic tears. I am here to keep you safe. None will raise a threatening hand. The raging storm beyond the hills Is kept at…
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Cradle Lullaby
Cradle Lullaby Cradle Lullaby Hush, hush my little one No more trembling, no more fears. These four walls and my embrace Will dry your desperate, frantic tears. I am here to keep you safe. None will raise a threatening hand. The raging storm beyond the hills Is kept at bay, will not come nigh For…
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