Marriage Narrative Poems

It was Sunday night,
My husband’s family created 
A remarkable unresolvable lifelong scar.
The scar that changed my life.

I can never forget that day,
The day when me...

Read More

III-Jana

Four months following Marie’s conviction,
Jana walked calmly into the prison,
there to see her former sister-in-law,
doing twenty years for sale and possession.

She had a purpose she...

Read More

II-Marie

It was two full days after this charade
when Marie was told the grim news,
her ex-husband had been shanked in prison,
killed by two illegal alien youths.

When...

Read More

I-Robby

Robby had been married going on eight years,
2hen his Marie demanded a divorce,
whe had been planning, lawyering up,
and instantly dragged it into the court.

Poor Robby...

Read More

Oh my darling, a white picket fence,
Oh my darling, a polite cricket wench,
In my face, you can't see, my soul.

Oh, my darling, oh, my darling,...

Read More

The residual effect still lingers on

The night we met was oh so exciting

Electricity filled the air

From across the crowded room we stared at each other

Our...

Read More

Are You Waiting On HIM?

You who have been given a vision or a promise from the LORD that you are truly looking forward to its...

Read More

I was  a middle child, 
the middle of three unwanted children
Our mother was English, an actress,
who had the misfortune of
loving our father, who abandoned...

Read More

Her girlfriends called her space queen, told me behind her back,
But I saw right away, the character that they lacked,
She said this, or she said...

Read More

It looked so right on paper to everyone; but when the night embraced her she was alone, still wanting to believe in love. 

Her footsteps...

Read More

She appeared vulnerable
When a professional assignment
Brought two complete strangers together
Sharing with an unknown
All about herself
A ‘failed’ marriage, an ‘abusive’ husband
She ‘sitting’ beside him,
While he was...

Read More

     When are our best years? So many in this society seem to think it is their youth, or their twenties....

Read More

She stopped smiling as soon as she picked up the subtle slow opening of the front door.  Jake, her grown up three-year-old stopped playing....

Read More

"They truly are jewels," the man muses while sitting
on the park bench. The recipients of his admiration were
not aware of his attention as they hurriedly...

Read More

The lead thug burst forth, swinging at Max,
catching him with a fist just under the eye,
Max pitched backwards, fell to the floor,
off-balanced, he slammed hard...

Read More

The steamy Havana night air became heavy through the broken-up streets of the old city where ancient Detroit monsters were on display like dinosaurs from...

Read More

                        ...

Read More

...The wedding was planned for that fifth year,
but when it came Rob sadly did say:
“I’m being deployed, they’re put us on alert,
I’m sorry love, but...

Read More

Charlotte Wentworth married far too young,
to a man quite rich with old money.
It had seemed such a dream on the big day,
a year later it...

Read More

When God saw a universe filled with darkness and void, He said, "Let there be light". In essence, when we first met, I saw the...

Read More