Category: Poems by Readers

  The English professor assigned,“For next Monday, write a poem on infinity.”Me! Infinity?Whatever could I write?Generating ideas, my mind was as tightAs a miser withholding […]

  Submitted by her daughters.   Our mother, Eloise Wayne Jones, was a resident at Marquette for four years in the Health Center after breaking […]

The daffodils are bloomingprofusely ‘neath the trees.Their Golden heads are held erectall swaying in the breeze.Forsythias abundant bloomsdance lively as a lassLike ballerinas dressed in […]

What do you know old girl?I know times are hard, but I can always choose hope. What do you know?I know in this isolation bubble […]

  I’ve got stuff I need to tellSince this COVID-19 started,Marquette isn’t doing very well.The Legacy’s closed for diningFireside Grill is shut down tooCan’t go […]

Closets have been tidiedI have cleaned out all the drawers,Rearranged the kitchen cupboardsEven scrubbed the bathrooms floors. Read all the books I care toSewed on […]

There you are again,beloved Lord,being beautiful in the SkyThe trees,In the faces of yourCreated ones.My heart swells with a joyThat spills out.Into the world I […]

The COVID-19Virus curve evokes an imageOf a roller coaster ride ascending ever upwardWith unwilling passengers wishing they were elsewhereWhile grasping the bar tightly, not wanting […]

  In the still of the nightWhen all, except cat-burglars and nurses, are sleeping,I lie awake.My mind is a parade ground …..Unsummoned, unrelated, unwanted thoughts,Fears […]

  From my perch on the fence,I watched the little lambs at play.Curly coats clean and pearly white,In the warm sunshine.I watched the little lambs…Yesterday…when […]

  COVID-19 came a-callingDr. Fauci called the score’U S Mailman wouldn’t enterTwo staff members did his chore. We are called to isolationNo more bus-trips to […]

  A child’s game of hide and seekWe often played. Seeking to know the others’ thoughtsWhile holding back our own.I often asked “Lay bare your […]

  Good I like myselfFor I have been called to isolationJust me and me I pray I may emerge a better personWhile all aloneJust a […]

  Gazing heavenward,A cross appeared in the blue.Prayer filled my heart.Thank you, PilotsFor this beautiful gift.Never will you knowYou sent God’s loveFrom above.   Mary […]

  FearfulAnxiousWhere am II do not know Our fences are uselessThe unseen enemySlips byWhen we hold hands IsolateThe world itself is coldIt grates against meI […]

  The girl from Valeene rode sidesaddleWith style and with graceIn a black riding habitAnd a smile on her face. She rode like the windOn […]

  My Mom named our house  “Hall Haven”.When the Hall kids grew up and went out into the world,she wanted us to know we could […]

 If you could repeat your years of marriage, would you?     Again?   Time has dimmed your sight, my love, That I might always […]

  Snow people once stoodWhere green spikes pierce thru damp soilSand shifts endlessly Spring paints with blossomsBursting forth on stem and treeGrief remains inside By […]

  My friend yelled at me “There’s a lion on our street”!Best we kill it now ere we become its’ meat.Grabbed my gun and joined […]

  Dandelions! Harbingers of spring!Delight to the eye, warmth to the soul!Promise of sunny days , they bringHappy thoughts with golden glow.Childlike, hold them to […]

  I first met Lord ByronIn Miss Moore’s Literature classWhen in High School I was in love with loveAnd may still beLord Byron Touched my […]

This poem was written in 2005 as my gift to my husband after fifty years of marriage. Perhaps I had better start working on a […]

Yesterday I saw a little girl hold a puppy for the first time.Her eyes sparkled as it’s tiny tongue tasted her cheek.As I watched, I […]

  The people are everywhere. They have color, shape, clothes, but mostly they have disposition. Anger, fear, anxiety, dread, depression, Enthusiasm, confusion, hurry, impatience, Arrogance, […]