originally published by me in july 2014 on Bubblews

Sunny lakeside days
Coconut oil in the air
Grainy sand between my toes
Tanning bodies, skin to bare
Live bait and fishing poles
Conversations with my dad
Evenings angling at the lake
Some of the best I had
Afternoons at my country home
In the sun, with a book
Baby oil and iodine
To achieve that Coppertone look
Baseball games fill the night
To watch or to play
KC Royals on the radio
In their Eighties heyday
A symphony of cicadas
Sweet sounds of the night
Spiders and grasshoppers
Giving me a fright
Farmers with their tractors
Golden bales of hay
Working the fields of their livelihood
Every sunny summer day
Though the memories are hazy now
And the details have begun to fade
The stories I must tell to mine
My childhood happiness conveyed
Photo Credit: my own
+Poetry +Jillybean1222

An Ugly Soul, A Poem

A body submerged in anger
A soul teeming with hate
A head with thoughts so ugly
A virulent storm unwilling to abate

Why has this beating heart
Become so bitterly cold
Why has the kind spirit decayed
Why is the goodness rotting with mold

The warmth that once persisted
Evaporated with all of life's good
Replaced with such intense hatred
Unable to understand or be understood

Loving others seems improbable
Loving self is impossible
When did one become despicable
In this world so unpredictable

originally published by me on bubblews in October 2014

A Goodnight Poem

The room is finally quiet so I can finally think
Yet my brain seems to be sleeping or on the brink
A poem deep and meaningful I wanted to write
Instead I'm yawning in the dark of night

My creativity must be waning along with the moon
As the clock ticks, I see it will be morning soon
The peaceful time coincides with the time I must rest
So this goodnight poem may not be my best

Perhaps tomorrow I'll become inspired
I'll write something lovely before becoming tired
In the meanwhile, I think I am done for the day
So this goodnight poem is all that's left to say
Photo Credit: My own +Late-night-ramblings +Jillybean1222-poetry +Poetry

I originally published this in Bubblews in Sept 2014