Long Housebound Poems

Was this a bold  endeavour or worst-case high risk plot?
 In one sense I was caught between two poles apart  concerns.
One must never underestimate indeed trivialise a devilish 
difficult decision.
A decision that may...

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People once said I was a homebody, and I guess that was me,
Often curled up with a good book, I loved watching movies.

Like blooms of sunlit meadows, are joyful where they stand,
Stained in the world...

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March 19, 2023, is a day I will never forget,
You see, that is the day that my Daddy left.

Not in the way you may think.
For he had gone to...

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Why is it so hard to be happy
But so easy to be sad?
When I see how people treat each other
Sometimes it makes me so mad

It costs nothing to be civil
To make life easier for one...

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The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Imagine you’re a woman, with a mind
as trained, acute and fertile as exists.
Imagine that your erudite, refined
creations top each year’s best-seller lists.

You write in English, French and Portuguese.
Translating ancient classics from...

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Imagine you’re a woman, with a mind
as trained, acute and fertile as exists.
Imagine that your erudite, refined
creations top each year’s best-seller lists.

You write in English, French and Portuguese.
Translating ancient classics from the Greek,
(for you, no...

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Whit wet Vetted Splendour...

Pervaded mounded jeweled ground
gunmetal sky incessantly
pelted and did pound
asper staccato round

arhythmic, emphatic, melodic sound
to this clown,
who felt housebound
as precipitation reigned down.

steady rain quintessentially
patterned oodles of necklaced
mini mellow marsh lands
wee hour early this...

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He was striken with sudden illness
Had been taken to the hospital
For immediate diagnose
And extract reason for the cause;

As he jumped down from the car ..

To embrace him she ran 
May be he wanted to convey...

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Standing in the corner of my room is a 
sturdy piece of metal, a tool that can 
transform,
Finally, the pedals, seat and display are 
all ready to test my form,
The wheels spin like the thoughts...

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Angrily, rain enfolds the insular rise of lawn undulating. 
Anglers dream, envious fishermen, inside looking out urging 

apostles, who elope within imaginary onslaughts, hooked unburdening's.
Aloft, thunder encounters lightening's insistent taunt, oracles fearsome uttering's.

And still, each...

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I fell back into the spaces among the living,
for the dead held no place for me.
I do not wish for death,
although I walk between the gray granite stones of Oak Grove.
I simply do not seem...

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Domestic Landscape


There used to be many small farms or homesteads around
Here where I live, they are abandoned now,
Except for some wretched relics unable to move, acres so
Small earth could easily be ploughed by a mule.

Nostalgia...

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Some years ago I met a young lady 
Looked unhappy, a definite maybe
I also found her pretty ugly too 
Never smiled or interacted with you.

One day came modification in her
She chatted and laughed as never...

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I remember the snows of my childhood
Bringing beauty beyond compare
And also how hard it was to breathe in
Mouthfuls of that cold frigid air.

Galoshes and scarves and long johns to don
Before Mom let us out to...

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I let the day slip away
  unmarked time in my older years at play.
Gray cast single clouded sky
  reaped restless winds their chill un-denied.

In his small bed my dog sleeps
  afraid of...

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Looking out the window at winter
thinking why are you so cold
why could it not be like last year
warmer and easy to get around
this year kept a lot housebound
with freezing rain then snow
making roads and sidewalks
a...

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What will they do now, I am a very ill old cat,

I am Much loved, part of the family, so proud,

Gone off my food, lost weight, not very fat,

My purrs have disappeared, my meows are...

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Violette Poem-Nature’s Design

Some folks like cold weather.
Want the warm air, never.
Could have snow forever.
Wintertime kind.

A snowstorm is outside,
covering countrywide.
Go have a fun sleigh ride.
Oh no, Springtime!

It’s called a Noreaster.
So, don’t get spring fever,
nor outdoor plans...

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what's different about my days? not a walk in the park
but a gallop around the block, grand
boys in tow, towing me. picking me
wildflowers. we have a spring
in our steps, though mostly housebound.

what about work? the...

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Wild birds our sages;
         we be trapped in cages.
How sweet the outside sound
for larks that are housebound.
We bump against the walls —
our bones afraid of falls.
 ...

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