On yet another gray day
the trees are dropping
golden reminders
to prepare for cooler weather,
more darkness, less light.
JDG
Category Archives: poetry
I Bow To Now
Between the honking geese
and the cawing crows
my silent rural retreat
has turned into
a wild reality show.
JDG
Time To Lighten Up
When my mood matches
the dreary weather,
it’s time to find
my inner sun, but even
my inner crescent moon would do.
JDG
Poem Prep
I get still and ask myself
what wants to have its say today.
I get still and wait
’til with a start, I awake…
The body had its say.
JDG
Drive and Learn
My two granddaughters solved
all the world’s problems
on our drive back to college.
Surprisingly, they didn’t want
my wise input on such weighty matters.
JDG
Walk And Wonder
How many times has my life
been filled with light
from an unknown source
as was my walk this morning
before the sun slowly revealed itself?
JDG
Knox And This Strange World
Knox looked up at a falling leaf
as a plane passed overhead.
He looked puzzled
as if to say,
“I didn’t know leaves could roar.”
JDG
October Perfection
The whitest of clouds,
the bluest of skies, mirrored
in stillest of ponds –
the air, neither hot nor cold,
smelling of harvested hay.
JDG
Futility
Looking for answers
when we haven’t bothered to
form a real question.
JDG
Strange Interlude
Feeling younger now,
as though I’ve retrieved
a quality of energy
I unintentionally
left behind, an unexpected
circumstance at almost seventy-nine.
JDG
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