Denise Carruthers I wondered where you had disappeared to. Glad to hear you're back home now. Take care.
hugs xx

Denise Carruthers I join the many people glad you are alive and wishing you a speedy recovery!

Denise Carruthers Dear Denise, so very sorry to hear that you have suffered a stroke. I hope you make a speedy recovery. I wish you well. ♥️

My best friend's mum said
'darling wear your coat
a cold for you be the death of me'

Impressed, I asked ma
'what do you think
should I wear something warm?'

But I'm big and ugly enough
to work it out myself
teaching me a lesson

...about love

#inkMine

To the moon
she was his sky,
he loved her colors,
her windswept petticoats,
like iridescent clouds
offering
a rainbow's peek
to the secret of her roses
and causing him
to draw the tide
in overflowed emotion

#moonmystic

Nightwhen
Alone
Shadows make strangers
Who move the air by muffling sound

Timewhen
Seconds take minutes
Hours of daze
You can hear a hum, whom is the wonder

Breathwhen
Depressor tug to hollow lung
Sandman screech
Dry eyed fear

Deathwhen
Dawn becomes an oasis

#writingprompts

a blanket of snow
rests on the bed we once made
in the shade of love
beneath a blossoming tree
& I an apple in your eye

but fate scatters seeds
that fall as they say not far
winter come stillborn
throwing ice in the cradle
cold sheets to cover my heart

#BecomingFragile

I have to stop now,
she said.
All out of petals,
No paper left for the chain.

Only a piecemeal,
A dreg
Of this morning's dew.

That won't hold a breath
For a rainbow
To lift up my sky.

Easel is set,
I'm done.

Painting me still
Apples at bay
Such is life.

#FromOneLine 91

I'll bear everything
hide in the clumping bamboo
and with any luck
not break the fragile china
but float, in a lotus prayer

#NaTankaMo

Hello everyone, just wanted to let you know
that I miss you already but I must take a little
time out. (No, it's not the naughty corner.)
It seems that there has been no Autumn in Oz
only the abrupt arrival of winter. Brrr
See you when I warm up.

Clouded thoughts obscure my vision of a sunny future.

#enneadpoet ~sunny~
~clouded~

Box of dusty memories
as painful to toss
as keep.

#WriteMap

how quickly

these soft hands of spring
grow new life

in a garden not mine
a lily
the color of my youth

#cherita #poem #vss365

Losses and gains
Chiming bells & broken chains

Happiness unfolds
In ways never told

Still shadows tug
Powwing memories like a bullet slug

So #forgive me as I get older
Becoming a bit in & out of, colder

#vss365

she walks all paths
breathing in winter
exhaling
'til the air
hangs off her like
a cloak
she twirls
when she walks

a subdued
but clear song
bathes every branch
and stem

she tells them
to put away thoughts
of frost

she is radiant
as the forest
greens
with gratitude

#BrknShards

soft rain ~
windflowers illuminate
the forest and the sky

#haiku