An August Memory

 

Cool evening rain-washed air

Wind slowed to a whisper

Gentle remnants of a rainy day.

“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and 

the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”

~ Sylvia Plath, poet

(1932 ~ 1963)

A Whisper of Hope

 

Tomorrow is a day 

I will never have to remember 

for when the stars welcome it

with that gossamer shift 

from tomorrow to today, there is 

a whisper of hope for the future.

“If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. 

Tomorrow never happens it’s all the same day.”

~ Janis Joplin, singer

(1943 - 1970)

Sweet Dreams

Dreams included ~

No one told me that 

dreams would be tucked 

inside that cloud of sleep. 

I recall whispered ‘sweet dreams’ 

Did it mean candy and gumdrops? 

But dreams included are seldom sweet. 

    Funny, 

      bizarre, 

        frightening, 

    completely disorganized 

but I have never been dropped into

a meadow full of daisies and sunshine with Mary Poppins and Bert 

to sing me to a circus. 

Wouldn’t that be a sweet surprise!

“A dream itself is but a shadow.”

~ William Shakespeare,  Hamlet, c.1600

Too Early

My eyelids droop ~

little strength to stay 

open even though 

I am not ready to

turn lights out. I’m 

not even close to 

laying my head on the 

soft pillow that 

whispers my name.

“Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Whispers

The complexities of life and living 

leave us weak and dizzy from 

trying to find answers. In a hurry, 

we set aside our sweet rich coffee, 

our easy restful naps, our walk 

in the park on a lovely fall day. 

Anything that whispers, 

'there are spaces and times 

without complexities or chaos'.

“Know that everything is in perfect order, 

whether you understand it or not.”

~ Valery Satterwhite, author

Nap Time

I listened 

today 

to that inside voice 

that cares for me

whispering 

‘nap time.’

“My body has decreed that I shall nap, 

and nothing will stand in my way,”

~ Kathryn Ormsbee,  Tash Hearts Tolstoy