You said twenty miles as the crow flies.
On a hot still day, with a tail wind
or through an electrical storm?
Your six minute cardiac arrest,
like a lifetime. Until it wasn’t.
Birthday note penned in blue,
seventy is the new fifty.
Like a wilted brown-edged rose
is a pink rose bud? Hardly.
Sun rays pierce gathering clouds
as blackness sits beside my pane.
Quoth the raven, nevermore.
Or evermore? Never sure.
And there is a world of difference,
but how do I measure that?
Motivated by a Fall Poetry Apprenticeship Week 7 assignment: consider a misunderstood or misquoted line of a poem, or something you misunderstood or misheard.
lillian the home poet 
Just beautiful. To me it speaks of loss.
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I’m always so pleased to get such kind words from an artist! Have a grand weekend and perhaps you’ll visit Lilliputian land?
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(Great big smile!)
Thank you Lillian you enjoy your weekend as well.
Care to join me in Lilliput?
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This is phenomenal, the images, the tone, the way it twists between lines and quotes.
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Ah Melinda, you’ve made my day! Thank you.
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you’re welcome.
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