a postcard to the beyond

I wish you were here

watching the flowers rise

from the garden we planted

maybe you are here

whispering words through

the breeze telling me to go on

but how can I with this

void inside my heart

I just wish you were here

- Inspired by Writers Digest Poetic Aside 2019 April PAD Challenge: Day 22 and dVerse Quadrille #78: Rise

little wave

I saw him walking

he gave me a little wave

I waved back at him

he seemed so happy

perhaps due to the warm sun

it has that magic

just a little wave

enough to push blues away

and warm my cold heart

- Inspired by WD Poetic Asides' 2019 April PAD Challenge Day 18

sevenling: predictions

things we find predictable:

using heat in winter, taxes going up,

a child’s joy on Christmas morning

things we find unpredictable:

the weather, winning lottery numbers,

the end of a love affair

but it all makes life a bit interesting

- Written for Writers Digest Poetic Asides 2019 April PAD Challenge: Day 15

you were once

you were once my home

my peaceful sanctuary

I believed in you and me

but things slowly changed

soon the blooming flowers

did not look the same

across the seas I drifted

to find my new home

far from your cold arms

in foreign lands among

strange tongues my heart

is now beating once more

but under midnight stars

I still think of you and me

and how we used to be

not so lucky

with smooth words and poetic lines

he tried his best to woo her

and ace her heart thinking this time

he finally had the lucky number

but she was too shrewd and

perhaps even a bit too skeptical

to believe his words were true

- Written for dVerse Quadrille #77- Ace of Poems and Writers Digest Poetic Aside 2019 April PAD Challenge: Day 8 - lucky poem

Pollock

my mind at times resemble

a Jackson Pollock painting

a mangle of lines crisscrossing

across a vast canvas

not appearing to have a pattern

but if one looks closely

you will see there is a method

to my mental madness

those jagged lines and colors

will all make perfect sense

- Written for Writers Digest's Poetic Aside 2019 April PAD Challenge: Day 4

the worst thing and best thing

she thought losing him

was the worst thing

to happen to her –

the last chance at love

but the stars had other plans

for it was the best thing

to happen to her –

leading her to true love

- Written for Writers Digest Poetic Asides 2019 April PAD Challenge: Day 2