Winter’s first blush: I see beautiful pure snow, The softest flakes floating down, I raise up my joyful arms, To dance and twirl around. . Winter is new: Cold flakes tingle on my tongue, Shivers racing up my spine, Your softness breaks my fall, Your touch is so benign. . The snows piles up: Your […]

I remember your sly smile when you gave me the gift: you said it was a unicorn horn, you said you found it, you said it was magical and I fell in love with you. It felt like lightning in my hands as the magic ran through me too. I put it on the mantle […]

    You’re the maestro stealing the show, Got me wound up tighter than a violin scroll. Always playing me with a virtuoso’s touch, Always blaming me cause I hurt you oh so much.   Every night, every fight was your cadenza, Forever playing it loud to a sold-out crowd, Until the spotlight dimmed and I shut you out, […]

I am not them: I’m not going to put you on a string and drag you around like a child’s pull toy.   I am not them: I’m not going to lock your heart in an old  trunk and steal the best years of your life.   I am not them: I’m not going to […]

I put the best of me for sale on my lawn: A buck twenty gets you great memories and conversations lasting all night long. Take the love letters for just fifty cents, steal my heart itself for two ninety five.    Buyers stream in early to look at the goods; digging through the bins with filthy […]