Posts for June 28, 2023 (page 5)

Roses

Yellow as the sun

Feelings of warmth fill my soul

It’s the love that shines

Between your heart and mine

Yellow roses shine like the sun

Marking our anniversary

14-karat gold

Roses are forever

a brand new city
and i have a key to the coffee shop
next door. 

my birthday was twenty-six days
after we moved four hundred miles from home.

i expected to spend a lovely day
with my partner
and my cats. 
and i did! 
and then i spent a lovely evening
with my coworkers
who are now my friends. 

they bought me wonderful,
personal gifts,
which could have moved me to tears.
not only are these friends good,
but they know me. 
they know me because
they listened when
i told them about
myself. 

after so many years of wondering who i am,
guarding my interests carefully
in case they aren’t good enough for strangers,
here i am,
in a new city,
knowing myself. 
here i am, in a new city,
freely sharing myself with others. 

it seems so simple now. 

but for some reason
i needed a chance to reinvent myself
to find myself for the first time. 

i needed a new city
and a key to a coffee shop.

My parents taught
me often & well so
I learned early I
should not speak
ill of the dead but
I only under-

stand the directive
more clearly now
in this stage of
living & breathing
since & be-

cause I fall
closer to that
unwielding
precipice be-

tween light &
dark, between
life & death, be-

tween being
& not

How delirious you made us!  

Aunt Gertie’s trailer on the market only 2 hours and sold at asking price. We were stunned.

Off the road, a tad shabby, huddled among the pines, the trailer’s allure was lost on us. But you had cash in hand, and we sensed no villain in you.  

My sister and I put champagne on ice and pondered a cruise:
Big floppy hats or broad brimmed straw ones?
How many jumbo pink crustaceans could we eat?  (Elastic waistbands suddenly dawned as miracles)
Could we finagle our way to the captain’s table? (We’d take a Jean Luc Picard stance with Brad Pitt grin)
How glorious would our suntans be?
A panorama of exotic drink umbrellas suddenly opened like grand souvenirs  

In the middle of our bubbly champagne binge, the local tv news spit out your name. Shared a video of your arrest, the drug money you paid to the realtor seized by the feds. And we, the latest victims of the meth trade, were left sinking in our Love Boat illusions, our exotic umbrellas bobbing forlornly out to sea.  

Vacation planning is so much fun
there is the tingle of anticipation
along with the magic of imagination
and the thrill of excitement 

While sometimes the actual trip
isn’t the perfect time that we plan,
a lot of time, just leaving the driveway
puts you into vacation mode and relaxation begins

I am a bit late planning this year,
but am excited about not only the trip, but 
getting the process started helps me to release 
stress and rejuvenate long before the trip begins

It’s almost like I have given myself permission
to dream, to relax, to concentrate on having fun
and getting out to enjoy the sun
in preparation for vacation

Although the summmer is going by too fast,
the magic is not lost and the atmosphere is
beginning to envelop me as the first step
has been taken, the vacation planning!

Lyrics lost

Stripped like a bone tree

There is no snow in Elko but

What you can see is that you do this to me.

morning mist dissipates
mountains become clear
cup of black rifle coffee
lorca’s translation saturates
my soul with a song
a dove coos as the sun rises
over the distant hillsides
it is well with my soul

Ocean beach views
Of sailboats, sun and sparkling waters
High rise condo 

Alone with her Alzeheminer’s seeping in–

Once she picked sweet strawberries 
Far, far away, long ago
At home.