“Shade and Darkness” by JMW Turner deep blue eyes bleed tears silver drops of silent pain blood stains broken heart
Tag: Poetry
haiku: inward bruises
inward bruises bleed bluer than red tearful eyes deep, raw suffering
Why I Love Billy, Part 2
Here’s another reason I love Billy Collins…
Sad News About Mark Twain’s Home…
I just read some incredibly sad news that Mark Twain’s home in Hartford, CT, may shut down. It is just barely surviving now, sagging under a tremendous load of debt because of the lavish visitors’ center they opened a few years ago. Read the details here. My husband, daughter and I toured this important historical landmark…
the feet of a roman god
I was just thinking about a poem I wrote last fall on the shores of Caesarea, while visiting Israel. It is a beautiful, sundrenched coastline, replete with layers of antiquity. And it is a wonderful place to sit and ponder as the wind stirs the memories of an ancient civiliztion that once ruled the world. the…
haiku: hope
faith, hope, charity love is the greatest of these, but hope sparks the rest
haiku: scarlet sky
scarlet painted sky every color in nature a sign from heaven
On Lexington Green
A few years ago, my husband, daughter, and I took the marvelous book about American history, “The Light and the Glory” by Peter Marshall and toured New England. We visited many historical sites and read as we traveled. It was a very meaning trip. Our patriotism and thanksgiving for our country and the many sacrifices of our…
One Glance
One Glance One glance from your eyes will change me forever… forsaken to beloved ashes to beauty swarthy to lovely rejected to accepted from a desert thorn to a desert rose.
haiku: desert place
sparkling springs at home draw me from this desert place where I have wandered
Bonnie Saul Wilks 