You have to look close
to see those small blue flowers
claiming their place in
the natural order of things.
I look and don’t feel so small.
JDG
Author Archives: Joan
Home Remedy
Writing poems
shepherds wandering thoughts,
guides them home.
JDG
A Guest Post By Sandra Whitfield
Such A Long Name
Jefferson Porterfield Haskins Breeden
You left this world suddenly but now
you are where names are no longer important.
You have become bigger than a name.
You have returned to your Source of Being.
Love surrounds you.
Pain is gone and self doubts no longer plague you.
You are healthy and whole and part of the eternal light.
Your daughter, Hailey, was born after you left this earthly home.
You have not seen her.
But wait! You may be able to see her.
I don’t know. I’ll know when I join you.
I love her with my whole heart. She is beautiful and precious.
She looks so much like you.
When I hold her my heart is joyful.
It also breaks because I can no longer hold you.
First Sighting
Infusion of joy
from season’s first daffodils
directly to me.
JDG
Slow Departure
Moon seems reluctant
to leave. It must have been
a good night.
JDG
Uh-oh
Some birds must
have gotten up
on the wrong side
of the tree.
Their anger was
on full display
in their early morning
flutter at the bird feeder.
JDG
Canine Proposal
Knox barks, looks at me
as if to say, “I’ve learned some
of your words. Why not learn mine?”
JDG
Large And Small
Vast sky shares
bits of blue with leaf littered
February ground.
JDG
Elemental
Shimmying stop sign
asks blustery wind,
“Can’t you read?”.
JDG
Bite By Bite
Bit into banana.
Realized moments need
digesting too.
JDG
