Another Porch ...A Poetry Blog

If we as gardeners only focus on what isn't growing or blooming the way we had hoped or planned for, we would miss what is! So too in th...

 PAD Challenge day 19 ; write a confession poem Oh look! He fills dawn's gleaming stair with Mercy's 'try again' I am not al...

PAD Challenge day 26 ; For today’s prompt, write a regret poem.  For time I didn’t take For what I didn’t do Here is a...

PAD Challenge day 8 :For today’s prompt, write a submerged poem.  One can get lost in thought; submerged by sadness of regret ...

  November's PAD Challenge Day 3.For today’s prompt, write a “the last time I was here” poem. I do not come here often For I cannot...

Every now and then From some lost yesterday I feel the haunting tug of things That I let slip away But all the could-ha...

In the transparent hull of moments We spill dreams, triumph and tears Leaving in their wake behind us Drops that turn to we...

I hated what I was saying Before it was fully spoken I knew by your wounded expression Your little heart was broken But I could not reach to...

I wish that I’d be gifted With the perfect words to say I wish that I could touch you You’re too far away I wish that I could take back The ...

The nakedness of truth Is a painful thing to see Every hollow, every curve Exposed Clearly As my gaze travels across its body It spares no p...

The night washed in around them like a dark and restless sea and there was no rhyme or reason to its shades of misery but it took more than ...

Oh my dear, if only I had known… I would have held you closer Whispered sweeter I would have closed my eyes And imprinted our last moment On...