On my better days
(moments really, days being
longer than I can
manage) I can move beyond
myself and find my way to you.
JDG
Category Archives: poetry
That Elusive Pause
That elusive pause – the time to stop, to
take a few breaths,
to assess
if the
path
I’m
about
to take is
the one I should
tread. Will it take me where I want to go
and will I be
the kind of
person
I
want
to be
as I walk
the path ahead,
be it an easy one or one that’s rough?
JDG
Perpetual Resolution
Still struggling after
all these years to keep my tongue
leashed and to control
fast flow to my lungs so gusts
of hot air are not released.
JDG
Visitation
The place was pretty
enough and well-kept. The day
was blue-sky sunny
and the temperature just right –
yet a palpable
melancholy soon settled
in, hinting of dark
secrets time could not erase
nor cosmetics conceal.
JDG
Natural Limits
With each storm the pond
rose higher, spilling onto
nearby land. The pond,
like us, can only hold so
much before it overflows.
JDG
Now And Then
It’s just for now that
dark clouds hover. Tomorrow
sun will fill the sky.
~
It’s just for now that
sun fills the sky. Tomorrow
dark clouds will hover.
~
Can we find a way
to live both with and beyond
such changing weather?
JDG
Not Even The Dog
Not even the dog
likes these dog days of summer.
He paws at the door
pronouncing his displeasure
with this Virginia weather.
JDG
Squirrely Thoughts
I’ll say this for squirrels – unlike birds, they don’t
leave a lot of
mess behind.
Perhaps
next
snow
I’ll put
out squirrel
feeders instead
and save myself a lot of clean-up time.
JDG
Family Ritual
On her seventeenth birthday
she went, as she did last year
and the year before,
to her hairdresser and said
she wanted red.
“Red? Again?” I said.
“It’s a family thing,” she sighed and said.
“On my birthday I go red
and every year
you shake your head.”
JDG
Not Teflon
Every now and then everything goes right.
Red lights turn green
and parking
spaces
are
there
for the
taking. Not
wanting to be
teflon for the positive, I give thanks.
JDG
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