True Story: An acquaintance said she heard someone pounding on her front door… she didn’t say knocking, she said ‘pounding!’ She went to answer it and a determined woman was there who demanded, “Where on earth did you get your mail box? I’ve been looking all over for the past 2 days and I can’t […]
Category Archives: Love
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit” ~Peter Ustinov. A few years back, I was on a very long interstate car ride and listening to Delilah (desperate listening: most stations were too static). A man called in to request a song for his true love, the woman he […]
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead…” Oscar Wilde ~But how would one do that, some may ask: Effort, practice, study, and determined will are the answer- It starts with the very little things: a service, a kindness, a prayer, a good deed, […]
Close your eyes and see The singular life that’s yours~ Smile in wonderment… Michele Marie
The Wisdom of the Clock You can’t escape its silent roar Its race is cast from shore to shore Time dashes off and then is gone “A good deed done, just one more day In good deeds you cannot delay Duty first, then right again” No stress in time or things without The soldier’s […]
Academia: “Write of roses, daffodils, and violets, White linen, drownings, and yellow-wallpaper creeping madness” If I write: This artist will write of your painted rainbow mists– Blue mornings, pink horizons, and golden oceans! If I write: This gray moth will write of Your stained-glass-monarch-butterfly universe! If I write: This traveler will write of worlds that collide The Pacific and […]
Haunted Heart I happened upon it so I’ll tell the odd tale Of a heart that dwells where the cold winds wail On a dark lonely street where shadows are cast In a town I once found in my heartless old past Searching for answers, warmed by sunlight That town nearby was dark like a night […]
I saw “The Ultimate Life” last night, a sequel to “The Ultimate Gift” with James Garner. The movie “The Ultimate Gift” is a story about a spoiled rich boy who is to inherit his Grandpa’s riches. But when they read the will, Grandpa has left a video of himself instead! In this video he sends […]
A Giving Love A true giving love Bleeding its’ life, drop by drop Will not soon die off Michele Marie
Haiku: Love, Sharing and giving A true love bleeds drop by drop And then gives some more Michele Marie
Michele Marie's Poetry By The Fireside... 