The Land Of Me

In the land of Me

what will be my first decree?

Find delight in who you are

and who you’re meant to be.

                                                                         JDG

Broken Connection

It’s hard for those

who have The Answer

to listen

to those who have

a different answer.

                                                                   JDG

Poetic Brevity

It doesn’t have to

be an epic

to make your heart sing.

Moments do that too.

                                                             JDG

Here Too

With a long porch railing

spread with seeds,

some birds edge each other out.

For a while other, less assertive birds,

peck away in peace until

the ME-BIRDS return

squawking, ” Me, me, me. All mine.”.

                                                                                          JDG

 

Between

It’s not a long drive,

thirty-some minutes or so

between home and work

and thirty-some minutes

back home again, but

this solitary drive

between two worlds

allows me to say goodbye to one

and quietly enter the other.

                                                                            JDG

 

 

 

Down-home Remedy

Visited by some

kind of bug and unable

to sleep, I wrap myself

in gratitude, and held in

its calm embrace,

I rock myself to sleep

humming a lullaby of tenderness.

                                                                          JDG

Even Birds Have Their Limits

It might be hunger

or pure cussedness that drives

that squirrel to dangle

and try to reach their treat, but

those birds dive and say, “No way!”. 

                                                                        JDG

What The Moment Holds

Sitting down to write,

I meet what is, what isn’t,

what might yet be.

Isn’t this what every moment holds 

whether we’re aware of it or not?

                                                                               JDG