Long Thymes Poems

Sasha Marie woke up early, getting her healing herbs ready for market.
She was bringing the masses the ones they liked the most.
St. John’s Wort, thymes, catnip, allspice, and eye of newt.
Eye of Newt made her...

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Old Mountain tales of love spin 'neath dawn's blush,
Elderberries, purple ink drop pearls, drawing me nigh.
Ah! Her laughter, a honeybee’s dance in summer’s rush,
Ignites my days with passion, 'tis morn I cry.
Calm, twilight lingers, her...

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Celtic Sun
Celtic sun, one such wonder, 
Sending her rays unto the woods, 
Celtic sun spun her golden silk, 
Oh, such beauty on kiln dried land. 

In this mystic cool Spring air, 
Soft wind blowing everywhere,...

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My memory flashes  back on my most horrific nightmare…

Again, I find myself  in rivet of this excruciating pain
With emaciated body, I totter to my wheelchair 
Holding my paintbrushes and glass paints
Dogged enough to...

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Pages I open each day
Under the sun that burns the hay
Verses I read and pray
Over a bun of bread I lay

Memories written below my chest
Strokes of ink I wrest
Olives and thymes of yesteryears
My childhood grinds...

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He happened to me like an autumn
Just like the change of leaves
It was sudden
But it was raining, raining on that day
Raining with black umbrellas and hurried footsteps
With wet papers and cold classrooms
Then, just right then
I...

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we found it uncomfortable
to hear him rant.
we found it less considering to 
try to understand his logic
his disposition
and even his words.
" YOU HAVE A FAMILY
I THINK YOU CAN UNDERSTAND
I DON'T LIKE YOU
AND YOUR BUSINESS IS...

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bassoons & oboes
they rehearsed in the atrium
 to the on lookers delight
the sounds of the oboes were soothing
they were like the sun setting into night
the chefs were amazing
 and the sounds of the bands,
I asked...

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If your feeling up to it
and don't mind taking center stage
If you feelings up to it
and wanna act like we're
Engaged
If your feeling up to it
and you put me first
I'll be the man
You need
The one you...

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NEVER BLAME THE MAN
WHEN HE HAS YOUR BEST
INTEREST IN MIND
WHEN HE ACTS NICE
A TREATS YOU KIND
WHEN YOUR FRIENDS 
SPEAK ILL OF HIM
TO CAUSE YOU TO
DISAGREE
SO THAT ONE DAY"GIRL"
YOU'LL OPEN YOUR EYES 
AND SEE
THEY'LL ARRANGE WAYS...

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A Big Bowl of Things

I gulped down a big bowl of soup,
I could've sworn it had assorted letters of poems
that spelled villanelles and palindromes!
It was funny...
'cause when I gulped down a big bowl of stew,
I...

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Priscilla was born under a lucky constellation
Without a single bit of consternation
Born under a lucky constellation
The entire town was in celebration
We were excited, filled with excited jubilation.

A lovely couple – Wilbur and Winnie Thyme.
They had...

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YOU BROKE
HEART
AND YOU'RE
 GONNA FIX-IT
WHAT THEY HELL
THEY TAUGHT YOU
YOU THINK YOU
 SUM-KINDA
 SPECAIL ONE
I EXPECTED BETTER
I LOOKED FOR 
SO MUCH MORE
THOUGHT ONE WAY
IN THE BEGENNING
IT WAS DIFFERENT 
IN THE START
YOU OUT TO
HURT PEOPLE
YOU OUT HERE
WITH...

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One bag of gingersnaps
1 cups of butter
1/4 of ground pecans

Mix and cover bottom of
square casserole pan

One can of corn kernals (drained)
2 cups of cream cheese
2 tablespoons of coconut rum
1/4 cup of coconut milk
1 tablespoon of....

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Let sweet rains drop on your palms
Let it cuddle your skin, soften like a balm 
Your bangles hum the dreamy rhymes
Let wind waft your fragrant thymes 
 
I am far away from you, far, far...

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