State Park in Virginia on the Eastern Shore

 

Memories Have Left Us

 

I lost a poem this morning

waiting in the car

Nonie in the Good Will

this is very hard.

Must have hit the wrong button

on the phone somewhere

or my Guides suggesting

you don't want to go there.

Apparently they underlined

the don't

Porch Lights

 

 

Among the trees a castle
high up on the ridge
watching a great river
as we hike past it.

Stately columns to the clouds
with rose colored stone
saints reflected on stain glass
walls impressive hewn.

Let us stop and rest awhile
call this place our own
insist we are the government
here for our new home

If someone asks about it
tell them we live here
and have for generations
are born to it my dears.

Ownership and autumn leaves
always are a pair
watch out for the water rise
and broken dams up there.

Here we have some papers
there we raise more tax
everywhere we celebrate
holidays and plaques