Husband Age Poems

I was a competent, happy housewife, but that was before my husband died,
Leaving me to rear myriad children solo, as the lone star twinkles with...

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Aging braincells get rewired
And one way I surely know it
Is that I am always tired 
And my face and body show it.

Even after hours of...

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Plank & axle
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Two lad's halted child
And mature men bolted out
One chose the plank
The other the axle
And laboured hard
The slog they had to do
For a...

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Aging woman stands on the precipice betwixt birth and death reflecting upon her life.
Bereft she sometimes feels when reflecting upon her life.
Crying, she succumbs to...

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Summer's hunter-green fields yielded to autumnal beige
and vermillion,
soon came the frosted air and cardinals singing in
snowy pine boughs.
Deer shyly emerged from woodlands edge for feed
families...

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Age defiant was this spruce and spirited citizen slinking blithely past the burgundy red doors of her enigmatic country dwelling.
As her olive skin neatly curved...

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Mirror, Mirror, Who Is That?

Who is that
Sleeping close enough
 To dream of kissing my nose…?
Well, almost…

Who is that who keeps inside 
Of him the man...

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Dancing in the water to tunes of distant memories.
The times we’ve had together that only belong to you and me.
Running into the sunset, we weren’t...

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Richard Mcgeehan Poem

Poetic license I employ
to match inventive
wisdom and witticism
regarding (brother in law of mine 
husband of eldest sister of same)
interspersing, initiating, incorporating
fabrication whenever possible,
and...

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she's being read
notes she wrote down
              in her
    ...

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Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf

Minor emendations to following
just posted verse
oversight to correct dissatisfaction,
yours truly I do curse
ah... methinks if hands of time...

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Love Poems

Out for Chinese food.
"A full wife is satisfied."
Good fortune, cookie.

Pulling warm sugar.
Our love is like sweet taffy.
It is worth the work.

Your hand is in...

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A busy Friday afternoon 

Exploding plane, but not an exploding cigar, as days of fun have long since gone.
The Byzantine Empire never left Russia, either...

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The revelation is deep when a natural man has founded his good thing with many complications three claims we heard three husbands by the natural...

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Once pawn a time...

About four plus weeks after
frazzling fiasco from friggin fraudsters
white knight still mourns swindled money
Lynne Costello Senior Civil Investigator
(assistant to Philadelphia attorney general)
unable...

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