by MichaelM | Mar 17, 2019 | Poetry
Searching For Joy in the Music It was just after six a.m.and I was minding my own business,waiting for the heater to erase the cold,sipping my coffee – the new brand I found.The blinds were all open, of course.As I watched for the dawnto illuminate the whispers...
by MichaelM | Mar 6, 2019 | Poetry
It’s Not Christmas ‘Til You Cry They start now before the leaves have fallen. Before we’ve packed the shorts and T-shirts away. Christmas lights in store windows and garlands reaching across the aisle. But it’s not Christmas no matter the signs. Oh, they’ll wait a bit...
by MichaelM | Feb 17, 2019 | Poetry
Thoughts To Lock in the Attic With Slow Cousin Larry That little nagging thoughtcame again this morning.The one I usually quickly push to the side,hidden from all conversation or the light of day. Much like they used to do with the idled childto be hidden in the...
by MichaelM | Dec 16, 2018 | Poetry
All I Had Some stories are long.Some are short.Some thoughts are fleeting.Some wrap around our very beingto cling forever. Like the one when I told youto wrap your arms around meand hold on.Squeeze the very breath from mefor you’re all I have.All I have.Lord,...
by MichaelM | Dec 2, 2018 | Poetry
Music in a Pie Shell The morning started off with music. Sometimes, that is good; sometimes not. I heard new voices and zeroed in on a few. I felt some of the new words. Some soothed, some moved, and some cut. One...
by MichaelM | Nov 13, 2018 | Poetry
Sometimes Friends Don’t Have to Talk Just before I met you for lunch todayI got a call.It was a short messagefor the caller knew that once she told methere could be no words back from me.“Could” being the magical words there.“Sweet Jane died” she...
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