If you think I'm just goin’ to go away, then you've got me all wrong. And if you bet I'll take offense or get discouraged, say "I'm done. I quit!" Then you don't know me yet. 'Cause I'm a...

I have to brush and floss and clip each nail, take aspirin, vitamins to ward off ills, clear gutters, flip the mattress, sort my mail. I can't forget to pay the rent and bills. It's time...

The woods grow smaller every year. My leaves Fall green and withered. Bitter water stings My shrinking roots. Yet I am Laurel still. I am the tree that one time was a maid, But that was long...

If once more I could move just as I please. Some days are not so bad. Some days I cry. You know, I feel it in my fingers, knees, My body's breaking down. I don't know why. Just thinking of...

I like to plan. I like these pages bare, my future fresh. (I never mind the cost.) So many possibilities! With care I keep it, fearing, dreading it get lost. My old one seems so fragile, ...

(after being stopped after my day-care shift) Exhausted, overwhelmed, confused, up-set. As when a toddler bellows on the rug. So small and powerless, her needs unmet, she fights me, but I...

How strong it is, this feeling of regret, You long to see the lands and loves you've known. (For Eden's flowers fade if you forget) In dreams you may return, but wake alone. Yes, now I know...

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Not just a game (a test of patience, skill, a chance for us to scratch our heads and rap our fingers) It was fun. Oh what a thrill, surprised and satisfied, to hear that snap. No...

That brilliant paradox on Keats' Urn would seem the pinnacle of art. But truth is rarely beautiful I've learned and beauty's seldom truthful, ask my heart. In some way every simile is true,...