What Crosses My Mind

  • Designed Day Dreams

    I remember that day, it was 7th grade civics class We had to draw the landscape the colors turning. We could see. When then we each with a notepad began to venture into a faraway retreat away, the sky brilliance our guide toward a fantasy. ~ I was unable to recall later that cold December…

  • Snow Swept Surreal

    Laughter while holding hands dance the avenue Crunching paths of fresh laid powder in view Soft glaze of ice to melt desire’s cheek When passion’s eyes together would love seek. I could walk forever with you this night Amidst tinsel and adorned Christmas light; Seemed just ahead a corner’s quiet road Might lose strength and the…

  • Summer Notions

    I stood soaking in the rain last night Weeks of that dry relentless sunlight Baking our naked soul, hot tarred street Bodies over tanned, burned by the heat ~ The apartment feeling summer’s wrath Long, windless, aching for some draught Scorching relationships, angst abound I hadn’t known quite how I’d be found ~ Last night…

  • Ode to Winter – a sonnet of sorts

    We have endured your grasp on our nature Many mornings, many degrees we shiver Our lives adjust not wandering further Beyond the safe restraints of near shelter ~ Some who may less desire Mother’s capture Will live mortal lives alone and whither Upon a cold arm’s caress in Winter Forever frozen fueled by His rapture…

  • Wild Skies

    Feel life brisk High pressure settle in Crisp, autumn morning With blasts Draping serious skies Winter’s scorn is upon us all A heaviness basks in air Time now Time asks for preparation Nestling When once we were alone … ~ Quiet morning  sun piques behind Wandering winds Haunting as the settling sky Corrals summer’s eve…