Archives: June2009

• Duty Calls…

  The Muse will be unavailable until Aug 3rd.
  May each day that passes…
  bring you happiness, peace and inspiration!

• Guest Post “My father, who art in heaven”

  I don’t intend to be sacrilegious: My daddy died many years ago, when I was barely 12.

  Losing my daddy, who adored me, was the shaping event of my life. It made me who I am today. It made me who I was in all the intervening years between his death and now.

  Daddy was bigger than life, a Texas farm boy who became a stellar preacher, and the hole his departure left was deafening and cold, swallowing me like the Grand [...]

• ~Meadow’s Waltz~

  She walked softly…
  Carefree and unafraid…
  Through whispering tides…
  Of emerald green~
  Flowing forth in…
  Pastoral oceans…
  As far as…
  Could be seen~

  Losing herself in a…
  Make believe world…
  Of a seasonal
  Wildflower ball~
  Knights and maidens…
  Royalty so refined…
  Pausing in acknowledgment…
  For each and all~

  The meadow had become…
  Her sanctuary of spirit…
  Offering an escape from a pain…
  No child should ever endure~
  Foreboding clouds began…
  To fill the summer sky…
  She winced a tiny…
  Droplet tear, so pure…

  Crimson, aqua, purple and maize…
  Each festooned flower…
  If only given the power…
  Would have saved her..
  On this…
  The Darkest of [...]

• ~Agony’s Plot~

  A zephyr skimmed…
  Across my creamy skin…
  Gently kissing…
  Where the sun had been…
  This day…This summer day…

  I was tending to my manorial gardens…
  Giddy as a child in play…
  I hungered and yearned to stay…
  But the lord of the manor house…
  Bid me come away…
  Reluctantly I paced…
  Through the intricate halls…
  Now looking and searching….
  Feeling trapped by the walls…
  A silent inner cry of misery…
  Engulfed my life to mimic…
  Some ancient Grecian tragedy…
  My fingertips…
  In rhythmic clips…
  Played an eerie solo…
  As if the handhewn rail below…
  Were a lustrous mahogany [...]