The Rat
Hey diddle diddle the rat had a wiggle broke his hip in June The other rats laughed at him working out at the gym said he was doing too much too soon! by Cheryl Love
Sweetest Rose
Come now sweetest rose And summer tinctures bring Soon your color goes Like so much of everything You lovely in shades flow Divinely in your red In fragrances air you show Your beauty in garden’s bed My words cannot give much But speak of graces true How you my heart now touch In times of […]
Sweetest Rose
Come now sweetest rose And summer tinctures bring Soon your color goes Like so much of everything You lovely in shades flow Divinely in your red In fragrances air you show Your beauty in garden’s bed My words cannot give much But speak of graces true How you my heart now touch In times of […]
Love and Friendship
Love is like the wild rose-briar, Friendship like the holly-tree— The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms But which will bloom most constantly? The wild-rose briar is sweet in the spring, Its summer blossoms scent the air; Yet wait till winter comes again And who will call the wild-briar fair? Then scorn the silly […]
To A Friend
Who prop, thou ask’st in these bad days, my mind? He much, the old man, who, clearest-souled of men, Saw The Wide Prospect, and the Asian Fen, And Tmolus hill, and Smyrna bay, though blind. Much he, whose friendship I not long since won, That halting slave, who in Nicopolis Taught Arrian, when Vespasian’s brutal […]
Without Knowing
without knowing you have helped me you are my mate your a good friend just being you you have changed me showing me how to be confident believe more in myself become more assertive I have been there for you You have been there for me I will always be there for you you have […]
Friendship
Friendship is a box of secrets That you can’t let go But if there are beautiful colors Friendship is like a rainbow. It is also loyal and true And it’s true to you and me. You and me are sisters, don’t you see? We are always going to be. Friendship is something we can trust […]
When you are old
When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But […]
Charleston’s Salt Flats
Periwinkle dusk cradled in meringue-d moon – Beams with tinged sun-drops each echoing its own Crooning –love for day’s sweet end, far-flung skinny oaks And ocher-ed waves of spindly marshes dance in the Salty drink, architectural perspectives paint The gentleness of each sentry’s uniform Tenderly embracing reflection-ed wetness Slowly emptying the tendril-ed ribbon-ed Salty streams […]
To A Friend
Who prop, thou ask’st in these bad days, my mind? He much, the old man, who, clearest-souled of men, Saw The Wide Prospect, and the Asian Fen, And Tmolus hill, and Smyrna bay, though blind. Much he, whose friendship I not long since won, That halting slave, who in Nicopolis Taught Arrian, when Vespasian’s brutal […]
