I don't know what was happening with the other posts! The image of the poem with the photo keeps cutting out. Last try. I promise! Grad Days On the bed, I gather my daughter under my armI open to the journal entry I wrote about finishing high schoolShe reads it out loud, stumbling on my… Continue reading POEM A DAY – June 15 (third time’s a charm?!)
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POEM A DAY – June 8
Monday Morning Dream The puppy lays on my chest, his paws on each side of my neck like trees, his fur forests my throat and I feel safe to fall back asleep and dream. The sun rises, pouring hot strands of light on our slumbering faces. My eyelids, like frosted-glass doors, turn my dreamscape red.… Continue reading POEM A DAY – June 8
POEM A DAY – March 30
new the dogs chase, trundle, nip and napone is goofy, floppy, eagerthe other is cautious, curious, confused the humans are tired, happy and sickone is loopy, sloppy, eagerthe others are excited, working, awed there is little space in my brain forpoetry – sleep is stuttered even dreams don’t reach my shore but oh, isn’t it something,… Continue reading POEM A DAY – March 30
VANESSA SHIELDS 