Thursday, January 27, 2011

ELLA'S BLUES

Photo from the Internet
ELLA'S BLUES
outside
35 below zero
windchill
inside
me
hummin' along
to Ella
I'm blanket-wrapped
eating cherries
from Chile
seems all
I can think
to do today
choosing
the roundest
reddest
cherry
biting into
sweet flesh
tryin' to remember
the dream
of summer
and was there
ever
a time
when livin' was easy?
~ mimi

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

MOON AND RED TREES

Encaustic print by S. Auberle
How lucky
to live
in a place
where people stop
their cars
to look
at the moon...

Monday, January 10, 2011

LOVE, JUST LOVE

Print by S. Auberle
Tucson, Arizona--
Christina, age nine,
born on 9/11,
who loved ballet and baseball,
gunned down
by a madman...
fear shivers through me
that the world has come to this.
Fear implores me
to do something, so never
does it happen again.
Fear reminds me (as if
I could forget)
of my grandchildren,
twin boys born that year
just three weeks after.
They love baseball,
run like the wind,
create mischief
wherever they go.
When they ask me
for answers, I say love,
just love...
and put Spiderman bandaids
on skinned knees,
dry their tears,
and hold them tightly,
as long as they allow.
~ Sharon Auberle


Thursday, January 06, 2011

WINTER HAIKU

Photo painting by S. Auberle
white sky paints the dawn
muted crows wing overhead
the snow whispers down
~ mimi
first appeared in "Crow Ink"