Susie’s Rag Doll

Do you remember
how you used to fold me?
 so close to your heart
as you were falling asleep.
The secrets that you told me
your deepest feelings, dreams,
memories of you that I will keep
to remind you when you hold me.
*
by  The Totton linnet

Friends

My friend, I will remember you
think of you, pray for you
and when another day is through
I will still be [...]

Between two chords

The following is an extract from “A turgid stem.”
 http://gentledove2.wordpress.com/the-turgid-stem

 

 

Between two chords.
*
I am lost between two chords
the mandolin is playing
you found me wand’ring somewhere
between the cello strains.
Standing between the willow
and the tanner’s brook
I just don’t have a reason
to take a backward look.

Kite over Texas

Every March Zilker park Texas is host to the greatest kite flying festival in the world
 
I’ll be flying my kite in Texas
if I can catch the breeze
hang her high in the sky
cut her some slack till she finds her space
and she knows she can please
I’m gonna make her fly
*
Running against the wind in Zilker
watch how [...]