Everywhere life takes me, I cannot help but notice people being kind to one another and to me. I call it camerado-ing, the verb form of camerado. It has long…
Author: <span>Maura</span>
Graceful neck arching, mane behind-flying, lively prancing through life’s landscape, comes a filly bright and beautiful. Days: perfect diamonds as she glitters on. Eyes wide, heart open, soul singing– true,…
Fate whistles as she waltzes, duplicity in her has grown. Proud of her independence, somehow she dances alone. She once did move so sweetly enticingly offering much. But now she…
I was expecting my fifth child, and this one was anxious to get born. Too anxious. I was hospitalized to halt early labor and, when released, was sent home with…
Come somewhere through the mists with me Come somewhere Tenderly We’ll not be lost Our hands will touch Come anywhere through the mists with me.
I had written poems for everyone, it seemed, but my mother. She asked me about it as she prepared for heart surgery. I promised to write “her” poem and it…
He’s such a contradiction, and confuses my heart He walks where he will keeps a calendar apart I devour stacks of words, he reads books of numbers. And so…
Every prisoner is quoted in his own words, however all last names have been omitted to shield the privacy and security of each. It’s been 173 Christmas Eves since Scrooge…
In the entire calendar year, there is only one day that I love more than Valentine’s Day. There is something about a day set aside for the purpose of actively…