Happy Sunday, everyone! This is the first month in which I’ve decided to have a theme to my poems that I post daily on Twitter. Since it’s May and the month of spring flowers, I decided to share a new flower each day with the prompt word from our hashtag poetry group. The result is…
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Perspectives of nature
Happy Sunday, everyone! 💚 This week I’d like to share a poem that was inspired by a real event and literally took place the day I penned it. My mother recently told me that great tragedies in life often inspire the greatest literature. Writers, have you discovered this to be true? On a normal day…
Upon these waves true and tried
Happy Sunday, fellow poets of life! Sometimes my poems reflect my heart and feelings transferred into words on the page. At other times, as in the poem that I’d like to share with you today, they tell a story. As a fiction writer, I naturally gravitate towards writing stories and I’ve enjoyed slipping them into…
From rain come flowers
Happy Sunday, everyone! I’ve been writing a lot of poetry related to spring recently because you know ‘tis the season, and it’s my favorite. 🌺 So I wanted to share one this week that reflects the proverb “April showers bring May flowers.” Growing up in New England, we lived out this proverb, where it is…
I will awaken as the spring
Happy Sunday, everyone! Today I’d like to present a poem I wrote about the awakening of spring from its winter’s rest. In a broader sense, this poem represents an optimistic trust in the provision of the future that as yet cannot be seen. I go to sleep in want, but I rest contentedly knowing that…
Poems of Nature – with translations in Greek
Hello, everyone! Gentleman Dave is back! I’m sorry that I’ve been MIA for so long. Do you even remember me? I’ve been spending most of my online time on Twitter, writing poems with the amazing poetry group called #vss365. These are some of the most talented writers I’ve ever met, aside from you, of course!…
The bridge from me to you
I love how the bridge of life arches from here to there Firmly fixed and connected to you, that’s where The heart is not naturally a lonely soul at all But seeks its connection, whether large or small A delicate breeze ripples the river A coldness across the valley brings a shiver But the warmth…
Who holds the heart of the moon
Depth, deeper than ocean’s deep Love deeper still Romance that steals the heart of the glowing moon Flinging its light into corners that have never known light Like a man awakening from a deep sleep and squinting in its brightness Is the romance I have prepared this heart for And refuse to accept Anything less…
The Wishing Well
Oh wish us well, Wishing Well When life is bad or life is swell Was my briefest message to tell As I sat there by the well On its old stone wall in the cool of the day To lament the state of my garden by the way For though I missed the butterfly and…
Love flows eternal
There at the end of our garden in view Flows a river of love with my memories of you Dip your feet in the shallow and see There was nothing shallow between you and me Cool is the water that flows ankle deep Passion is the heart that makes the birds cheep They sound in…
The Poet's Love Letter 