Saturday, April 6, 2019

A Map of Fantasy Land

Photo by Marko Blažević on Unsplash


Light the lamp and in the soft glow you’ll see
Secrets inked across the parchment set free
Roads long forgotten meander the page
Leading to the knowledge of a lost age
Gold in the mountains, if you can find it
Treasure ’neath the waves, if you can free it
Places to raise your sword and win your fame
Inscribing fabled history with your name
Here be dragons, and there be dark nightmares
Ogres, and witches, and the things they fear
Across the faded map your finger roams
Where will it lead you before you come home?





Friday, April 5, 2019

Night and Moon


Photo by Fabian Oelkers on Unsplash

Night falls through the blinds
Lighting fast
Waking up the moon
Hanging in the sky
Silver plate
And diamonds too
The stars are winking
Waving down
Wave and greet them back



Thursday, April 4, 2019

Grandma

Photo by Devin Justesen on Unsplash

The ghosts of you
Walk throughout my life
Painted on the walls in watercolor
Stitched in strawberries with a peterpan collar
Planted in rows
And rows
Tulips, grapes, currants
Trees of apricots and apples
From you my inheritance comes
She taught me and you taught her
Passing threads that tether us
Beyond the slippery sands of time