I was told while feeling sad, “tur
My heart ponders metaphors, for jo
It reaches towards Mother Nature
My heart becomes the germinating s
My soul is merely a locked door wa

I have spaces, yearning to be fill
In my heart(depths of colorful hor
In my soul(love’s everlasting ghos
Between my toes(warm oceans of gen
Between my fingers(intertwined wit

In my dreams a sylph sang whilst s
Thus, such a sylph's purging delig
There, a water nymph glistened as
Near this aquamarine diamond of se
There, a centaur galloped swiftly,

Ophelia,
infamous, painted maiden of histor
Fair,
by her ebony hair and chiseled bro
Delightful,

To hear whisperings in wind, the f
Walking golden paths of leafy road
Looking up towards Red-Shafted N
Discovering nature's showcase—a pl
Gray Crowned Rosy Finches ruffli

Seasons are endless passages of ti
With each waking, golden visage re
’Tis pure decadence to an eye’s pl
We long to snatch each glowing mom
In millenniums of space holding us

Look! Yonder tree,
disillusioned, and
perplexing in her masked beauty
Her, plight mangled by dotty roads
’Tis an expanding snare, growing s

Your beautiful lived within the ki
He lay there for eternities—he nev
You see? My core became his prism
As such, I found your kindness a
A breathable entity attached to ea

I could smell rain saturating air,
As I sat on my concrete porch—its
As my heart quickened, I could se
I envisioned him looming in the pi
His beady eyes of black beckoning

Spring was our birth
A season of airy hycinths and viol
Summer produced a jungle
A juncture, wild and spellbound by
Autumn relinquished a solemn breez

They—two souls in twain
Left not upon this earth a stain
Perfectly as they were, hewn toget
Abiding there, for eternities, pla
Deepening their roots—in love, in

Hope is a design of expanding, uto
Hope is a genteel medicine of fair
’Tis magick
An emblem of authentic truth in wh
By and by, vibrantly cherished joy

Through a vision of the past
I’m looking at little hands restin
I’m holding him more gently than
In a moment bringing me my greates
He is so small and fragile

Magic, like sparkling dews falling
In her
Compassionate, mother
She nourishes with fruitful fortit
Tranquil, mother

I will
Of me and I, within my heart writ
With feathered flanked pens on par
Thus words grow old and dusty; yet
Growing eternally, stamping moonli

where do oceans end?
Where do galaxies begin?
When do mountains stop touching sk
Do trees ever stop dancing so tall
My mind wants to create limits. M

My children’s laughter rushes insi
Thus leaving each corner of my sou
When their laughter sings to my ea
I bloom, stretching wide my palms

Dear, exemplifier—nature’s wonder
Trellises hewn by a Bard’s colloq
Colored in pearls and light’s infi
Enamored by stardust—magic thunder
Forgotten tales’ spun charm, set a

My daughter says, "mommy write me
I pondered for a while, on writing
But I paused within the realizati
She wanted me to write a glass sli
I pictured her sweet cerulean eyes

Angels go before and behind me, I
I’ve never seen them; yet
Only through the eye of my dreams
Where in feeble woes, I yet screa
Upon secret, hidden troves

In trial we struggle like the last

A magic rose
A glass slipper
With these please cloth me
A poisoned Apple
A thimble’s prick

Set clocks forward
Ring all the bell chimes
Like morning alarms jump starting
This is how morning glory sings
Lifting up earth’s magic within fr

'Tis garden dusk embellishing a wh
She is like red roses, queenly amo
As fairies kiss her petals—she wel
Her thorns distance those who woul
Her red emboldens with Autumn’s p

Rain sings as it splashes earthy v
The air moves as with our universe
She whispers her thoughts where se
Streams carve earth, singing to mo
As souls' yearn for a dreamer’s dr

You grow on sandy blankets, like s
You dip toward a sky’s dotted and
You soak beneath heaven’s lampligh
Stars bow to your gaze and a dry,
You are an oasis of pungently swee

Today was dawn as chirping birds p
Yellow, blue, and corn husked in c
Their’s was a fast and fleeting be
Today was dawn as butterflies skir
Shadows slowly became erased by hi

Sometimes I'm a bellowing slump—I
Addicted to tears as I grapple my
I paint myself as an addict to dar
How my heart quickens with my tear
I feel my breath hastening, runnin

Tears, golden tears
Do not dread the world
Release your embers of fear
Rinse away thick silt and behold j
Hard mystic mountains never bend

Sakura—a sacred wisp of cherry blo
She is dressed in sanguine grace;
Arrayed in dresses of spring tide
A Somei Yoshino—weeping, billow o
We trace our lives to her edges of

Fairy-rose lagoon
A prim blush of sweetest pith
Innocence in heart
Pink, calming lagoon
A crux of gentility

Oh, those whimsical movements insi
Dancing with wind piped songs, as
Like a mold glued together by eart
Thus my mind’s array blossomed upo
Earth gave her wings—spell binding

I want to be as earth’s salt
I want to decorate pages with phan
I want to find gilded words trappe
I want to wield my imagination’s e
I want to reach for depths within,

To this be true, with thine heart
Live always for a rose’s breath up
Live for hands gentle and voices c
Live for kind words dancing with c
To warm lips and admiring eyes be

Autumn left a fragrance of bucolic
Honeyfur, cool and crisp, I savor
Moonglades swept away my longing h
Nigh, moonwakes kept their vigilan
At dusk, newfound senses awoke ami

Sleepless, I am
As a breathless, stainless night t
Noises of my house awaken
My pillow is a rock beneath my res
Dreams awaite me, sifting through