
Writing

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Dress
I'm wearing the same dress I wore last year, on an evening that felt like moonlight even though the sky was still a milky purple-blue by the time we left, arms linked, laughter spilling over each other and turning the air fragrant, because back th
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Quick Decision
The aliens saw Earth and left.
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Plan to Dream
With my one and only life,
I plan to think and dream,
no matter if my ideas are rife,
no matter how extreme.
I’ll climb the highest mountain,
figurative or real.
My dreams, I‘ll keep on countin’,
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Even When
If I can walk through the rain,
I can run in the sun,
even when it feels like the downpour
will never stop.
Because even if it doesn’t for a long time,
umbrellas will be offered
from hands I love to hold
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Community Acrostic
Come together
Offer help
Manage their sorrows
Monitor their emotions
Use kindness,
Not hate
If you fall,
They will be there to catch
You
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Founding Fathers
If their expressions carved in stone
could move once again,
their expressions would remain stony.
The dysfunction
we allow to continue functioning
Their gardens,
now flowering with pollution