Buttercups scattered

across green lawns and fields

lift us up, settle us down

help us pause

life’s merry-go-round.

JDG

Sitting on the patio listening

to lightly rustling leaves,

sipping a small glass of wine.

Bird song fills the sunlit sky.

Worries slowly slip away.

JDG

When you were little,

you and I fell asleep

listening to lullabies 

in the refurbished shed

down by the water’s edge.

Soon you will return

to the refurbished shed

and you and your husband

will fall asleep wrapped in the silence

 of the waxing and waning moon

while I give thanks for the unexpected

refuge that shed has been.

JDG

I don’t get up ready

to embrace the day,

but the day reaches out

and embraces me.

Dog, cats, and birds greet me

with a chorus of requests,

and before I know it,

the day and I are locked

in a mutual embrace.

JDG

Flowers wilt. Leaves fall,

but that’s not what’s happening now.

Now life swells in leaf and flower,

inviting us to this moment …right now.

JDG

Late afternoon –

trees sparkle in the sun,

birds flirt with each other,

butterflies sip sweet nectar,

I rest.

JDG

Felt something in hair.

Reached for it. Offended wasp

not pleased. Stung finger.

Flew off. Wasp did what wasps do.

I grabbed pen. Did what poets do.

JDG