Tuesday, November 5, 2024

joy

your smile
dazzling eyes
brings such joy

to my life
I dream this 
love will last 

until we 
fade into 
light stardust


- A tricube poem written for dVerse Poetics: Choose Joy

Monday, October 28, 2024

I want to believe in promises

I want to believe in
every word you promise
I want to believe that
everyone has some
goodness in their heart

but time and time again
I’m left disappointed
in the action of others

yet I still believe that
goodness is still out there


Tuesday, October 22, 2024

I don't want to forget

I don’t want to forget 
my mother’s perfume, 
my father’s steady hands
or my brother’s laughter

I don’t want to forget
the first kiss under moonlight
the way my heart quickened
under the gaze of his brown eyes

I don’t want to forget
standing beneath the Eiffel Tower
riding the Tube in London
or viewing the Caribbean Sea

I don’t want to forget
all the good times 
not allow them to fade due to 
heartbreak or disappointment 

I don’t want to forget
I don’t want to forget



Monday, October 14, 2024

in all the lights

daylight breaks across
the autumn sky ushering
in a new day

trees of brown, red and
gold comes alive 
in the daylight

the crisp air tingles
our skin as we gaze
into moonlight

we whisper to starlight
before we close our eyes
to dream


Tuesday, October 8, 2024

reconciliation

rift between us
wider than oceans

being the adult
extending a branch

healing deep wounds
our words inflicted

still holding hope
sunrise in distance



Monday, September 30, 2024

string

how many times will I allow
your charming smile to string 
me along when I should be gone?

how many times will we fall 
for every white lie they tell us
slipping the wool over our eyes?

hopefully not until the end of time


Tuesday, September 24, 2024

as the leaves fall

under skies
cobalt blue
the leaves fall

in hues of
orange, red
yellow, brown

and my heart
thinks of you 
that last kiss

now fading
away like
summer’s bliss