Long Rondine Poems

The Word contained, inside the head
Available until we're old
Cherished within the heart as gold
Will bring us to heaven instead
Where those streets of gold are outspread
There Jesus, our Savior, Stronghold
The Word contained

With open arms, and side...

Read More

Dreams from the distant past calling me
how can I stop in the middle of this race?
In this crowd I am just another face
of losing dreams which I once loved to see,
no looking back we're now...

Read More

If I invite you to come and join me
on a merry-go-round,past this sky's blue,
will you join me to find that childhood key,
if I invite you?

Our unicorn dream to touch rainbow's hue
again on dragon's back to...

Read More

THE LAST BATTLE

In a huddled lump, old soldier on Front Street,
But the hurrying winter crowds never even see  him
As they stop for hot dogs in the snow on a child’s whim. 
An army of...

Read More

A parakeet green that I named Eugene
and early in the mornings he will stir
chirping and flapping his wings in a blur.
It is quite a wild energetic scene . . . 
I swear, I do not...

Read More

WHAT AILETH THEE?? 

What aileth thee, my soul, that thou art sad? 
Why have thine words stopped pouring out in pain? 
Why doth thou from poetry now abstain? 
Wherefore art thou in melancholy clad? 
Thou...

Read More

As rose petals wither in the autumn of life,
Days hasten in orbits, some dull, some are bold.
my muse rises to hoist a setting sun hung in gold,
gleaming light abiding as daughter, mother, and wife.
Glorious blessings...

Read More

Little princess in satin shoes and dress
Curtain rises as she makes her debut,
Important attendees are me and you
She has been afraid of making a mess
Dancing across stage’s apron finesse,
To a rousing applause in ev'ry pew
Little...

Read More

~Her Kindness~ 
(A Rondine) 


Her kindness just touched all people on Earth 
Her beguile smile could light up a whole room 
She loved everyone we all did assume 
Much loved from the first moment of...

Read More

I sing allured the sunshine song for you, 
night lifts silver shroud from curved satin sky.
The canvas of draped dawn sunburst hues dye, 
embellish pearl meadow with dulcet dew.
I float on day dream in fervent...

Read More

She wore brocade of red with silver threads
A tight fit, clinging to her shapely hips 
A matching shade of lipstick on her lips 
The lady was determined to turn heads
And turn around they did, news...

Read More

Take a deep breath and fill your heart with calm.
battling the powerful waves every night,
trying to detect a glimmer of light,
life hurts; I need time to heal from life's qualms.
fighting while everyone witnessed the psalm
all...

Read More

Somewhere out there, there is a ray of light, 
glittering bright against the pouring rain,
that leaves a mark that ripens into stain, 
that grows brighter as it fades out of sight, 
to show the faint...

Read More

Colors are the King's delight at first light.
A shepherd’s green pasture and quiet streams
in piquant blues. Eden’s unbruised fruit teems.
The shadows waning, bittersweet’s delight
of the sun’s yolk and clementine so bright.
Steps in Adam and Eve...

Read More

Graceful like the morning birth, sunshine smiles
lifting doubts, healing every last heartbreak
bringing light, gentling so not to forsake
hope calms the weary soul as love beguiles
silencing grief, raining hope through exiles
prayers erase all the darkest trials
Graceful...

Read More

Only wheeled things come in traffic
And not the meek earth-tilling brown hands
Coerced to stoop low, dogged to contrabands.
Spirits and bones chastised by stick,
A contract avowed played on a trick.
Now on the edge of cliff justice...

Read More

At some point in a not-so-far-off time,
your gray matter is going to go to ground,
and though your memories are still around,
I’m sorry, friend, to say that you will find
a near facsimile of your great mind,
a...

Read More

In a split second, life can be snuffed
Unforeseen events cause misery
Why this is so, ‘tis a great mystery
Of such our lives are suitably stuffed
None of us should ever be bluffed
Accidents are main features of history.
In...

Read More

Jinxed juvenile slithers, withers unseen.
Feeling the angst of earlier guilt trips,
A Christian conscience and its censorships -
this golden-haired boy was not born to glean. 
Mind colored from purloined men's' magazine;
(note purplish stains too on his...

Read More

Moonlight on magnolias, cream on cream
in the breathless hours of raven midnight.
So caught up in fragrant, dreamy delight
in beauty fraught, satin, platinum beams.
Darkness can be so much more than it seems
bringing beauteous, hidden truths to...

Read More

Calibrated thoughts, require a stress test 
Nous finely balanced, seems level headed 
Evenly spaced, til our needle’s threaded 
Suggestion feels good, but hard to digest 
Fabric lacked substance, loosely it divests
Too good to be true,...

Read More

Moans come from the cemetery
On Halloween night I am told
Other kids, not me, are so bold
They tell me I am contrary,
That place is awfully scary
I’m telling you, when dark and cold,
Moans come.

It’s worse than a...

Read More

    The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. (Psalm 16:6)


Between the lines, it is, it’s said
oppressive, limiting, confined - 
no room to move, a...

Read More

To evacuation route, traffic flowing
Into the hurricane eye, one traveler
Going opposite way on lonely road concur
Into the storm, scary, dark, wind blowing
Then eye_out comes the sun brightly glowing
At once milder storm but traveler won't transfer
To...

Read More

And there she was, a triple sweet treat
Earth, wind, and fire under the sun
She moved eyes as she began to run
With white sand blushing  under her feet
The waves and wind chimed into her beat
The...

Read More