Out my window each night at the stars I would stare
‘Til the dawn lit the sky with its pastel fanfare
With the moon I would talk, her light in my hair
Her cratered eyes asked, Really why do you care
Posts Tagged ‘poem’
Why Do You Care?
Posted in Randoms, Rogues and Outliers, tagged astronomy, exploring the universe, human condition, human nature, poem, poetry on June 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
All We Can Do
Posted in Good in the End poetry collection (death and dying), tagged hospice, human condition, humanitarian response, mortality, poem, poetry, surviving a disaster on May 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Seared by bombs and shootings
Left fewer and bereft, keening in the rubble
My “share” on Poem in Your Pocket Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Emily Dickenson, poem, poem in your pocket, poetry, poetry month on April 18, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s the first poem I fell in love with and the one I want to share with you here on National Poem in Your Pocket Day. Enjoy! To Make a Prairie by Emily Dickinson (1755) To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee. And revery. The revery […]
Doing Cancer (in loving memory of Jeanne Conover)
Posted in Good in the End poetry collection (death and dying), tagged cancer treatment, haiku, hospice, hospice postwar Japan, hospital cancer ward, pancreatic cancer, poem on March 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
In the beginning, the white-frocked horseman of her apocalypse
Eyes averted, blurts she has pancreatic cancer in store
She rocks, absorbs our reeling shock then, pensive, quips
A curious “Well, I’ve never done cancer before.”
Eye of the Storm
Posted in Randoms, Rogues and Outliers, tagged Chesapeake Bay, haiku, poem, seagull, winter storm on December 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Wind wails, fraught with ice
White on gray the roiling bay
Gulls remain, silent
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