Ice Crystals
...Ice crystals glistening like faceted diamonds
On fingers of snow piling on the sun porch
Where the sun is supposed to be in charge,
Winter’s white satiny gown shimmers, and,
Reflectio...
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Categories:
sun porch, march, snow, winter,
Form: Free verse
September 25, 2021
...SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
It was a bright sun, blue sky day,
refreshingly cool, destined to be short
in a post autumnal equinox way, the morning
farmer’s market shimmering with activity,
with varieti...
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Categories:
sun porch, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Dreaming of Home
...DREAMING OF HOME
When I dream of home
I think of you and I on the sun porch
Warm sunrises shining on my morning face
Giving me my family grace
Dreaming of you in the kitchen
Sipping a warm ...
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Categories:
sun porch, appreciation, assonance, caregiving, dedication,
Form: Lyric
Empty House
...Empty House
Weather beaten, sun-baked
Rickety, rackety siding,
Falling apart, worn of age
Tucked away midst bushes and brambles,
Rattling windows and dusty ledges
Battled the cold wintry bree...
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Categories:
sun porch, christian, nostalgia, truth,
Form: Free verse
Waiting For the World To End
...If you look backwards in time you might see us
It was August… too many summers ago to recall
Sometime after midnight, ….my brother and I
Slipping through the valley of sleep
Crawling out the ...
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Categories:
sun porch, mother, sad,
Form: Narrative
Seasons of the Sun
...The Seasons of the Sun ©
angle of fall’s sun
so different from spring’s rays
dapples the sun porch
end of hot summer
the crisp, sharp tang of fall’s breath
smokes the air about
a waiting...
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Categories:
sun porch, imagery, light, nature, sun,
Form: Haiku
August Skies
...If you look backwards in time
you might see us
It was August
too many summers ago to recall
long after midnight
my brother and I
slipping through the valley of sleep
crawling out the window
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Categories:
sun porch, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
The Blue Danube
...The old upright piano sits flush against the wall,
has been hushed into silence, out on the sun porch
Ignored, neglected, but standing erect
I can imagine it was treasured in its prime,..polishe...
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Categories:
sun porch, blue, childhood, mother, old,
Form: Narrative
Summers Warmth
...Summers Warmth
Authored by Chuck Keys
What happens to the summer’s warmth in the fall?
Does it stay in nostalgia’s book of memories?
Or is it found inside
... a wrinkled...
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Categories:
sun porch, nostalgia, time, beauty, autumn,
Form: Free verse