Another Porch ...A Poetry Blog

See you soon:) Click on image for a bigger blue sky... One of her would like to read And one would like to ski And one wou...

The poetry of rain-song twists the air into a sigh Where rush of eighteen-wheelers and mute moments hurry by We cannot halt t...

Maybe it’s in the way they softly slip Like teardrops spawned by tender memory Or perhaps it’s in the trembling as they d...

  …because this silence hangs weighted upon the night air With echoes of laughter and doubt and despair This is the silence of ...

It’s so easy to get tangled By its sheer, translucent ilk As it weaves its snare about us With intention smooth as silk B...

A mirror reflects the image A sea reflects the sky But thought’s finished span Reflects the man Not visible to naked ey...

I would stay up all night to love You. I am eager for your charms I have no objection as you delight Me. Weaver of a thousand poems… Your p...

These tears are not for you They have nothing to do with your leaving And I am not that blue There’s no reason to be grieving For the want o...

While the evening slips to midnight And the midnight back to day While day returns to evening So a life-time slips away But all I want to sa...

Some long for fame and fortune Their hour in the sun Forgetting in a moment It could all be gone Some long for the arms of Anyone but who th...

Hush, now is not the time for chatter Words would mar this perfect night As the wind howls at my window And spring cowers low in fright Hush...

The brook which is blue-green by day Laughs at night in silver-gray It wanders through the fern-lined dell Where once our child-hood shadows...

Hours step forward Demanding my attention Quiet bullies Tearing me from you Without a touch It’s just the way it is……. J~

Mostly I feel you in the blanket of mist As it hangs in a moody shroud Over the fields where once we kissed Beneath a moon-brushed cloud Mos...

Strange, sweet ache You’re getting to be A familiar thing Each breath you take Washes over me Like a gentle rain As I wake You’re all I see ...

Darling, if I should write you a letter What is it that I would tell? Would I speak of such wee trifles as weather? And ask ‘have you been w...

Come my love, the shadows lengthen Day is sinking low The sky above is deepening In whispers on the snow And we must haste We cannot ...

The moon casts her glow like a silver path On the gleaming snow where twinkling stars laugh As down from the sky, in wavering strains D...

Fancy meeting you here I was turning to leave When someone called to me And there you were You show up in the most unexpected places Easily,...

Somewhere the white waves wash away The ambling footprints of the day Somewhere the kindness of a man Warms the heart of his woman Somewhere...