A Real Thing That Happened (Sorta) - A Journey By Car

And what a journey it was…

7 ladies

2 generations

1 minivan

No destination

My mother - the travel agent 

Colonial Williamsburg

Closed for the winter

Halfway down the coast:

Tennessee for barbecue 

Three quarters down the coast: 

Visit Aunt Michelle in Florida

Florida: 

Might as well

Go to Disney 

If we’re already here

A week spent:

Park to park

Hotel to hotel

Three packs of underwear bought

Even though

We had a trip planned

Three weeks later

4 children under 10

A teenager

2 women in their mid-40s

No strategy

No plan

No wonder chaos ensued 

A Poem That Shows I Eat Too Many Carbs - Love and Bread

Love and bread

Similar in nature

are they not

The body of man

Versus the soul

Both common among animals

Do a dog biscuit and an owner's love

not go hand and hand

Is bread not what gives us

the life to love

Are they not both simple

Being consumed by people everyday

And consuming people on those same days

Love and bread

Who’s to say

They are not one and the same

A Series of Haikus Someone Made Me Write - Head Hands Heart

Head

Swarming with ideas

Living in the headspace

Lost in thought, always 

Heart

Beating wildly

There is no controlling it

In and of itself

Hands

To feel the warmth

Of the flames in the night

Let it burn

A Poem I Wrote About Space - Io

Io

My name

Untouched by earth

Not suited for their needs

With mountains taller than any other

Volcanoes erupting with Sulfur

That floats in the atmos 

And frosts the ground

Awakening to see

Mother Jupiter

Every time I turn

Her final child

Closest to her heart

I wish to be further

But cannot leave

My mother needs me

So I stay

For as long as a have to