Husband Color Poems

Who was a family show singer,
when her young daughter tried to be a dead ringer.
He brought her to life,
then she became  his wife.

 
Her...

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Purple phone on the piano
Red rings sing of missed rendezvous 
I’m sure it is my fuchsia fellow
But what’s a cocoa girl to do

I’m in love...

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unsuccessful humanness

The forest he traveled had many narrow paths, there was always something new to see, like the white tree that
once wanted to be the...

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Her husband wanted everything blah.
He loved tans, grays, and whites in the raw.
She was sad for a few weeks when he passed.
But then someone said...

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Damian was on the tele-video 
conference with various Prestigious 
Proper people of distinction. The US
Vice president was on Skype along
With Secretary of State. He spoke...

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When I went to bed last night, my hair was fairer,
Yet when I looked at the mirror today, a stranger was there,
More grey than fair,...

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even her dungeon was painted amethyst
     her husband, his unforgiving jail cell he missed...

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A field day shoe fit for Mother Goose
  
Fruitless effort squeezing figurative juice
Pandora called triggering 
helter skelter to get loose
necessitating Bullwinkle J. Moose
to usher...

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Look at this bouquet of multicolor flowers dearly, 
I bought for you because I love you abundantly,  
Keep them as the treasure of my  heart...

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The Write

I yawn and stretch. 
I dare to pray... realizing 
it would always be
the best course. 
The smell of coffee 
is pungent on the air....

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Too fragile stems hold heliotrope heads
Taffeta flaunted purple pompoms preposterous
Let us lie on the grass, smoke cigarettes
Aft petal papering conjure new year's purpose

Behold from below...

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If you ever espy a latitudinally
and longitudinally challenged
older yet shopping savvy woman,
(wedded to yours truly
for almost twenty six years),
who stands approximately
four feet and ten inches
a...

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** Devotion Poem, VANTAGE POINTS **
(For Jim. #17 in Devotion Poem Series)

“I’m not a romantic,”
   you announced at the very beginning
With a side-flick...

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What matches orange?
The husband asked thinking the couch was a mistake.

She was a decorator – not a paid one,
but nevertheless, she was a visionary.

She had...

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pear salad
dancing with color....
funeral today  


Second death in our church from COVID. 

Here in rural Georgia neighbors, friends, family, church members have always brought...

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