There is a palette within my heart
From which I paint each day.
It's filled with vibrant colors
That will make you feel so gay.
The reds are like the roses
That mesmerize us so.
The blues are like the oceans
Reflecting the skies glow.
The orange is like the evening sky
When the sun has just gone down.
Sprinkled with some yellow
It will wash away a frown.
And when I paint the earth
An umber that is warm.
It's there I'll plant the seeds of love
That will bloom a life time long.
This book represents a thirty-day period of my poetry journal. Each poem addresses
the dominant thoughts occupying my mind during the early morning hours of a given
day.
Questions, unquestioned discoveries, and answers in parable and rhyme…. This collection records a journey starting with a 1960s retrospective and the first man on the moon, moving to a new millennium welcomed in with a terrorist spin, family crises,