YESTERDAY’S TOMORROW By Barbara K A Cheryl’s Pals Collab I saw the future yesterday even though the sun was hidden behind skies of steely gray. I saw the future yesterday amid bubblegum thoughts and the sailing moon, within that lonely and mysterious place where tightly twisted thoughts unfurl. But I saw the future yesterday, somewhere […]
MAXWELL PARRISH “Wynken, Blynken and Nod” (1905) UPON DISCOVERY’S PATH This morning’s sun gently knocks upon the window of my day as darkness fades with the silent rains that came with yesterday. And as the sun emerges once more from behind the fading clouds, I am again free to feel, free to […]
SUMMER DREAMS AND SUNSHINE SCHEMES We were children and dreamers, for they went hand in hand, together all the time on those long summer days as we made such big plans from the dawning of the day till so very late at night. We were fast friends with big dreams, on […]
WHISPERS OF PEACE When all is quiet and very, very still, I hear the whispers of hummingbirds wings as they waltz among the rainbowed garden blooms, sipping summer sweetness from miniature goblets of nectar found there. And I pause for a moment on this summer afternoon., my heart […]
SWEET RELEASE My heart awakens to the flowers that bloom, the secrets of their beauty released as I slumber and dream of flight, life beckoning to me in whispers warm and free – dreaming to be, my destiny. (c) barbara kausteklis 7-26-11 (c) photo barbara a kausteklis (bak) […]
LUNA OF MIDNIGHT DREAMS Luna rises to greet the Night slowly making her way resolute and sure, as she ascends and travels across the sky toward the magic hour of midnight dreams. Full moon harvest moon, golden and bright, finally losing herself within the light of the dawn and in passing says goodbye to the […]
IMAGINATIONS BEYOND Adventures near and far and always beyond where I used to imagine I could ever go as carried so high and far away, fantastical balloons lifting me high above the usual I so often see to places beyond where I thought I could be, overwhelmed, yet inspired by all that […]
WITHIN THE IN-BETWEEN BY BARBARA K A CHERYL’S PALS COLLAB I heard the words as they danced through my head in that in between time between asleep and awake, or so it seemed, for I really couldn’t say where I was or what time of day. Having lost all […]
INTO THE DARKNESS I hear them even now when the night is still, trailing off into the darkness amid hushed whispers, muffled shudders and muted gasps, the ghost stories and scary tales we told around the campfire as the flames licked the black of night, stories told at precisely midnight when […]
LOOKING FORWARD TO VACATION I’m looking forward to vacation, can’t get it off my mind; it’s that time of year, and I hear vacation calling me. I’m dreaming of that day real soon when my flight lifts off the ground and takes me to the warm beaches I love and palm trees gently swaying in […]
