My friend Regina posted this on Facebook today. It touched my heart and I wanted to share it here. Not Being Perfect Regina Puckett I can dance, play drums, run fast, write or sing But the world will never know what I can bring Because I stutter, I’m too short, tall, skinny, or fat How could I show the inner me with any of that? My outside covering hides the true … [Read more...]
Green Anole, Robins and Cat Birds~Word Pictures
Word Pictures by Divoran Lites April 10,2014 Green Anole How does a lizard go along a chain-link fence? He weaves himself in and out. Robins and Catbirds Shh, take a glimpse at their underwear when they’re bathing. Robins wear white fluffy panties. Catbirds wear scarlet. … [Read more...]
Speaking Other Language
Speaking Other Language By Mary Harwell Sayler What do we know of the cool brook’s rising slowly from its rock-source: trickling, winding, fading among the lilied grasses then suddenly splitting the tomb of another field where cows laze in live-oak shade, waiting good-naturedly for just such a miracle to happen? © 2012, … [Read more...]
Seasoned
Seasoned By Mary Harwell Sayler Spring came hobbling in on a stick thrown from a dog- wood tree shaken down by pollen-ridden wind. Spring came limping on knobby knees of knotted pines inflamed in their pajamas of pink azaleas. © 2012, Mary Harwell Sayler from Living in the Nature Poem, published by Hiraeth Press … [Read more...]