Positivity

A smile endures all day long —
more potent than sunshine, rhyme, or song.

Spreading a sprinkling of cheer today
dulls the bitter, gray yesterdays.

Easily enticed is tomorrow golden
to be your everlasting guest
when joy’s beholden.

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Beloved

Dear beloved,
you purse your lips
and angrily avoid
comfort’s kiss

Dear beloved,
your haughty stare
creates greater longing
for weather fair

To soothe your ire
I’ll dance and sing
proclaim myself fool
if you’d let laughter ring

I’ll use my charms and all beguile
so honestly come and stay a while

Tell me the thorns that prick your heart
so gingerly, I can pry apart
the darkness curtaining a smile of sun —
dearly loved and harder won.

Wind Chime

She always smiled when the wind rang —
The chimes tittering and laughing
Was heaven knocking at her door.

Convalescent

Sometimes all I can do is throw you things
Sweets and magazines, photos and kisses
I’m not sure what will lift your lethargy
That acceptance of the inevitable
But I want you for a moment to smile
I want you to be reminded that you are loved
And that I think of you
Even if you must think of nothing