Is doing your Best OK?

You try to dot all the i’s, Correct your deficient, I try to be a good person, Last year this time thought the world was gonna be ok, I was going to have better, Happier days, A lady asked me to be hers, No one ever cared to ask me, I was beyond happy, That

Neighbors beliefs and…

Believes every word and thought from a book written some thirty-five hundred years ago with a variety of authors y not in celebrating her religious leaders imagined birth. Doesn’t celebrate Halloween or christmas, Believes you never move forward alone, Thinking for herself is done only through God. Hates Christmas music, I like most Christmas music,

I can just see her now!

My baby puppy, Was going to name her Saddy, Might name her Sammy in memory of a sweet fellow I knew, I look forward to walks, Travels, Having a trusted travel companion, Quiet times sitting thinking, Some one who cares when my I tear up, Unconditional trust and love in dog form, The puppy I

Whose ‘deal!’

Bet those children not showered! I saw one in green hair, The dad of five helped Sherry move out, He works hard, Wife has set of twins, I felt for oldest daughter, Green haired watching other two, Growing ups hard, Small town Iowa’s no exception, She felt sad, Parents five children, no one should have

How do you stand tall?

How do I look forward? How do I look to growing old? Mom and Ellen,Karen and Laurie gone, Taken from me leaving me with tears, Touched so deeply, Others will go, Will they ever care the memory I hold? Enveloped deep within, Hearts of hearts, Recorded, smelled, felt.scared. We hold so much many never see

Years melted away

Five years Missed em all! When Craig stood up, Walked over took his daughters hand, Next they were standing in front of me. Craig says Mela this is aunt Val. I had been so scared Diana would call the sherriff because I was there to show love of my sister. In June 2018 Went June

Will

What brings you to scribble thoughts, Suddenly, Out of the blue my heart stopped. Time enveloped me, Four months and twenty six days I lost my mom. Mom had been kept from me with lies for five years white trash. That same white trash narcississ half sister kept my baby sister from telling the truth

Sisters and brothers lost are unmeasureable.No monetary value can equate the price in my pain.

Determination

Confidence Is it fate? Is part of a part trust? Determination play its part. Fiddling around with future. What parts determination? For my own part I bullying me into things. Telling myself canstanly like that ant, Yes you can, A gone favorite singer said it best, ‘You got to have faith!’ Not referring to a

Bleak

Words bring thought Stir conscious Envoke feeling Stir pot Ruminate in my meloncholy gut The sky in northern Iowa now ‘Bleak!’ Great word Poets friend Sculptors knife Medium Chunk of wood Canves Vocabulary Intination Cadence All returns like humanity to dust Yet sift through ones we love We are more then dust Uncle Norm was