Thanks For The Dance

 

I found you on a moonlit night,

You walked the streets alone,

Your feline silhouette was slight,

Your ribs showed every bone.

And when at last your trust was won,

I brought you to my home.

And now you're sleeping in the sun,

No further need to roam.

And cradled in my arms tonight,

This moonlit winter evening,

We're dancing in the silver light,

To Alexandra Leaving.

I hold you up against my ear,

Love starts to overwhelm.

Your purring's all that I can hear.

We've reached a higher realm.

2020

(from the book Discoveries In The Dark by Doris Potter)

© Doris Potter

Blue Butterflies

 

Flecks of blue sky floating down on powdered wings

flutter around my feet and, as I bend,

around my face.

Flitting among the flowers, they later rise again

and blend back into the sky replacing

the tiny missing bits.

2018

(from the book Discoveries In The Dark by Doris Potter)

© Doris Potter

My Heart

 

On western shores so far away

My Dad walked on the beach alone

And found a gleaming heart-shaped stone.

He bent to take it from the sand

And gently held it in his hand.

My Dad then sent this heart to me

My treasure for eternity.

With western shores so far away

I wish that time and space could bend

And I would see his face again.

2018

(from the book Discoveries In The Dark by Doris Potter)

© Doris Potter