Author Archives: Joan

Advice To Self

If you feel yourself

start to sink and know you don’t

have the energy

to swim, just take a deep breath,

relax, and let yourself float.

                                                          JDG

Together We Walk

Toby and I pause

at the same tree.

I see lush leaves

filtering the morning sun.

He sniffs roots and bark

for signs of passersby –

Two walkers,

two very different walks.

                                         JDG

 

 

 

Intrepidly Imprudent

Even in the rain

 the squirrels came,

ever hopeful

the birdseed would be there.

Joined by cardinals and jays,

they gobbled away

and saved none

for the next rainy day.

                                             JDG

 

 

A Brief Pandemic Brief

H-O-N-0-R,

P-R-O-T-E-C-T,

G-R-E-E-T.

                                                                                                                                                    JDG

(with thanks to LuAnne Holder for introducing

me to alphabiku, a form of haiku)