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Hidden Skivvy’s – Silly Poem
Underwear, gone missing. Not a one pair to be found, Search the whole house. Search all around. “Find them if you can”. Says a devilish child’s smile. “But don’t look, Under the compost pile. Under where? This silly poem inspired by Fandango FOWC -One word challenge for 4/9/21– Underwear
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He Did What? – characters running the show
Once I wrote a novel called, “Lilies in the Spring”. It is about a brother and sister, fifteen years apart in age. The parents die in a car crash and the brother must raise his thirteen year old sister. The story started with the brother’s childhood before the sister was born. He was an independent…
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Life of the Un-damned – A Poem
If I was running without caution, away from all my troubles, and just as I reached the edge of a chasm, with bubbling hot lava below, someone reached out and pulled me back, planting my feet instead in an oasis,so that the precarious place I used to stand on,became a distant memory,the smoke of it…
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True Love – A Poem
I believe that you will leave, Because that’s what I expect, That’s what I think you’ll do, Because I’m not all I thought I was, And I haven’t done what I promised I would.I rush to make amends because,Soon you’ll leave,if I don’t give you hope that one day,I’ll get it.But then I stop in…
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The Vaccine First Dose
I had shot one about ten hours ago.All I can think of is,I have a foreign substance coursing through my healthy body, causing it to launch a full blown,response protocol.Not to a virus that can replicate itself,but to a protein,that doesn’t belong;An article of clothing,that COVID wears,which my immune system,will sniff out and know whose…
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Six Things the World Should Not be Without
Birds singing – birds sang when the skies were quiet after 911. They sang after the tornado blew through, the dust storm blew out, after the last crack of a bullet from battle or the drive-by shooting. They sang when the unjust took power and life got harder. They sang even at the gravesite where…
