I happened on a stranger With a smile that said friend And struck up a conversation Mixed with laughter and no end Her face was warm and glowing Like the sun on sparkling sea No sense of grief or sorrow Only merriment and glee I had nothing to give her But simple innocence aglow As […]
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Sweet Nothing
Sweet Nothing lived for ‘morrow Plenty lived today And when she saw him walking Dressed in scarlet – she in gray She’d whisper to the children And fly above the sky And flap her wings and shudder And stay up past bed-time She’d deplore the clouds with rain So thunder felt distraught And offer words […]
Cosmofunnel Poetry Contest
For a couple of years now I’ve been an avid contributor to Cosmofunnel.com It’s a place not unlike WordPress where people of like mind can come together and contribute but at Cosmo it’s a bunch of would-be poets like myself who do so. For June 2019 I was lucky enough to win second prize in […]