Elizabeth’s town
Burned down
Left everyone with a frown.
Smoke billowed over Baptist
Enveloped black over stones.
Mother Garrett
must have rolled over in her grave.
Sad day for Garrettsville.
“Brittle”
What brittle has fallen from tree to ground?
Sprigs in a white snowy sea as
Shadowy limbs face northeast.
Branches flounder and drift northwest.
Treading and losing breath
Wind spent and shipwrecked twigs, creaking and breaking
Submerging and reemerging, gasping for air
Like dolphins in a ghostly powdery wave where no one goes.
By Georgianna Marie
Photograph by Dave Dreimiller
“In a Dream”
“In a Dream”
They came together in a dream
When they were young.
Hand in hand,
They stepped into the verdant forest
Where flowers bloomed in spring
Where birds forever sing.
They lay themselves down along the stream
wearing blue jeans, and boots, to stomp on the marshy ground.
There, they were still.
She ran her fingers through his golden curls
And gazed into his sad blue eyes
And with his long and elegant hands,
He traced her smile and happy face.
They set their clothes to the side and kissed and made love.
And when they were finished, they dressed as the fish began to swim.
He gave her his shirt to wear and she to him her baggy velvet coat.
They smiled and giggled as they saw themselves dressed in each other’s clothes.
And then they rose and walked out of the forest and out of the dream.
And as they crossed the threshold of reality
They gently let go of each other’s hands
And softly drifted away.
By Me
The Simple Truth
“In a Tree, by You”
“In a tree,
by You”
Who are you?
I am, Me!
Here I am, to say, “hello”.
I know, who I am.
I am, who you say I am.
I am you, if you wish!
You are me!
Can it be?
We are one,
In the same!
In love!
In a tree!
By Me
Red Sky in Morning…
Sailor’s warning!
“Dreary Abandonment”
A homeless shadow moves up the rutted driveway,
flanked by spent weeds of summer past.
Lightened tracks in the bend make it want
to turn to the left around to the back. But wait!
There is a shed ahead…what to do?
An aura is wavering in the diminishing light of dusk.
The shrouded door and window of the porch,
uninvitingly beckon the obscure figure
to come and take refuge from the bitter cold.
If only the abject and lonely house
didn’t cause second thoughts, Ah!
If only, to warm the hands and toes
and satiate the void of loneliness and sorrow
engulfing the spirit and heart.
All that exists is ‘dreary abandonment’!
The Photograph, “Dreary Abandonment” was created by David Dreimiller, a photographer from Garrettsville, Ohio
Our Only Hope
Our only hope
What’s wrong with protecting your children?
Do we really need to go to that place?
There is enough weirdness in the world
So much disgrace…
Let it go!
Be a shield of strength
Blocking the evil forces
Outside.
Come love
and forget,
our only hope.
Carpe Diem
“Carpe diem”
To enjoy is my goal today
With toys go out and play
And hold the key of utter fun
Take the ball, and with it run.
The sun doth shine brightly on my brow
I shout with glee that thou art with me now
And may tomorrow bring us goodness
That we find today in nature’s ‘jeunesse’.
Of what more are hopes and dreams made?
As if the peace of love falls down upon us
In form of wind, mist, the coo of a dove, hello she bade
o’er head and swoops down from above.
How lucky to enjoy the day
As we seize the moment, and go out to play.
I Once Had A Neighbor
I once had a neighbor
you could eat off his lawn
he was so unhappy
not sure what went wrong —
One day I asked
“What went astray?
he looked bewildered into the air
beyond my way.
It was then when I saw
his heart did it wilt
and sadness pervaded the earth and silt.
And tears fell down
upon the ground
and whiteness covered
the green trimmed grass
all around!
-By me-
On Tiffany Creek 