It is a Hebrew proverb.
Things go up and down
You ride high and low
Your appreciation and joy cant be taken for granted
If your knowledge increases and lessons are learned
When low tide surrounds you take what you can from it
and apply it for those rainy and stormy days
Given the current world,think of today
Cartwheels and walks in tbe sunshine admiring Nature are other ways to turn
The next time your wheels are spinning just think about this
You never know when the wheel stops and starts for you

C@rainbowchaser2020

911 took a bite out of  the apple
She is wounded but carrying on
We stood tall
We will be calm and vigilant
Patient and calm
Care a litle deeper and hang in there
Be well and take care my fellow poets
Patience isnt easy but we have to walk with head held up high and attitudes in check

C@rainbowchaser2020

No matter what she tried
The days denied
It was living ,living a lie
It wasnt what it appeared to be
An imposter from the start
Another member of the walking wounded with a broken heart
She sang you never loved
She wanted you to try
Given time and care there would be anoher guy
You left a scare that was way too deep to heal
You never loved she sang with a voice so high

C@rainbowchaser2020

Cry in the shower
Get it out if your system whenever possible
Origin doesnt matter
You need to release and move forward because no matter what you did well
You gave it your all
Next time might be better
Crying
C@rainbowchaser2020

Hideen gems and codes
Suggestions
Ways of examining the world
Different vistas and platforms
Answers with no ending but many questions
Points to ponder
Blue world if sky and sea
Beckoning ebony blanket of lights near and far
Cliches and metaphors mixing new and balancing old
It is our Art and my forever friend
Poetic answers and questions
C@Rainbowchaser2020

Apologized to the Tiger-colored feral cat crossing a path spooking her
Crows and pelicans  were having a call contest
You have to deal
Going with the flow doesn't suit everybody
It really isnt a one size fits all world even though some want it to be
You get comfortable in uour own skin
Fly as high as your wings and spirit can take you
Enjoy space and time trying to find out who you are
We spend so much time that we dont stop and smell the roses
Listen very carefully
Stop the world and embrace the quiet when you need to get off of it
Staying the same isn^t sane
It is just easier but life isnt about easier- simple process
Remember,it is a four letter word like sane
You can't even

C@rainbowchaser2020

Did the words matter?
The message was confused because it never was transmitted
Was it worth the effort?
Save it for another
Did it matter anyway?
Venting elsewhere might be good for the future
Was it worth the price you will pay?
What you say
Say it to yourself
Tell it to the wind
Where does it end and begin
What you say
C@rainbiwchaser2020

Walking is my medicine and usually helpful
There was company today
Jif the squirrel went on chomping on his acorns
The ducks were flapping in the pond
The seagulls squawked their symphony
This beautiful lady flew by and seemed to be with me along tne way
Her paprika and tumeric ensemble with black velvet lace on the edge made her stunning in the sunlight
Moving on further a smaller ivory and lemon
winged friend joined us
So exquiite and non assuming
Hope I get a mariposa walk again soon
They take my breath away
How I wish that I could fly with them

C@rainbowchaser2029

Children should be seen and not heard
This is my house and I do as I **** pkease
Cliches from another time and place
It depends and transcends
What was accepted yesterday has a different value today
A world with converging generations colliding
Where you come from is as it should be
Just keep learning and dont find yourself stuck on this khaki coil
You adapt,accept,and change
You can reject but move forward as it depends and transcends
Be true to yourself and what dictates your heart to beat better for you

C@RAINBOWCHASER2020

Loving and enjoying Technology made me stop and truly think
What it does and can do is only one side of its story
MIT can study and perfect it
Utilize it
Create games for children to use it better for STEM
Talking became passe
No time to chat just text or email
Sit down and relate?
Everything old is rebooted
Relationships have lost their meaning
We dont improve on simple pleasures
because they are not real and old school
News isnt fake we are
Social media has its had in shaming people
That was not its job and who made it so?
That isnt who I am or want to ever be
Balance is not artificial
Find yours

C@rainbowchaser2020

Not things that go bump in the night
Not nightmares that repeat with no end in sight
But rather what cant be explained
Understood or continued because what needed to be
Accepted
Never happened inspite of the best intentions
In some cases used to bes cant be counted like before just like unnatural fears and never ending tears

C@rainbowchaser2020

When Mother Nature dazzles us with her children and vistas
Reminds us that she is gracious and notbe be abused or messed with
When you are lived beyond neasure and continue to climb a rung  as you venture forward.
Something reminds you that your heart never completely minded from what was and what is
Even now as you venture wanting to do good in tne world
Even now you are still unsure because you never stop learning
It is a process and as it should be

C@rainbowchaser202o

What triggers it
It was pulled no matter how
You can break out with time,help,and patience
You can change along with your behavior
You are either a victim or victimized
Rules are sometimes meant to be broken
Others should never be when people get hurt or are broken
Not pointing blame
Crimes are crimes bottom line
Invisible?

C@rainbowchaser2020

Do you leave well enough alone?
Dont fix what is not broken.
Accept what is and not quest for what could be improved and made better
Is complacency the answer?
We go back to basics when Technology lets us down or isnt working
Have we forgotten yesterday when tomorrow isnt a given
Have we not apprecisted today?
Its wealth and gifts.
Do we know where we are going to or towards?

C@Rainbowchaser2020

The face
That sweet and honest face
Makes me happy still long after I was three
He is always around me
No matter where I go or what I do
Pooh I will always love you
Then and now until this khaki coil isn’t under my feet.
Pooh,it is you,my sweet

C@rainbowchaser2020

Do we know what we need?Or Whom?
No disrespect intended ever in writing or in person
Being politically correct has nothing do with this equation
Many of our Ancestors came  through Ellis Island or  other places
with a dream
Some deferred and others accomplished
History does not repeat itself and other times it rhymes
Some look for a beat or an echo
Is it really a toss up between a boutique world or a Walmart mentality.
Nothing in the middle?
Where have we gone?
Where are we going towards or away from
C@rainbowchaser2020

You were a secret
Not supposed to be found
Yet,you have been
Names and feelings
Herstories and Histories
The DNA is one thing but the stories and memories
Lost to me and my family
Speaking of which ,you are also my family
It is coming true
It is real
What was never before now is about to come before me
Those who link us passed long ago
Painfully we can’t ask questions
Perhaps,you have the answers so we never break again
We bond,it is real
Remembering those we lost and loved

C@rainbowchaser2020

Never seen you in person
Plan to  when you come home to the Big Apple
There is a soulfulness and genuineness surrounding you
It is real beyond words
Not only are you on fire but you glisten and shine
New York City girls know what is real and true
Alicia ,you are an incredible star with a vibe and presence that only a few share beyond compare
You are a fire they have yet to know
Burn gently,brightly,and warm the world


C@rainbowchaser2020

Will post more thos week.
Worki g on book promotions and getting good agent.
Hi,Everybody!

Crying in the shower
On bus rides with sunglasses on
Not jut what you do for love but what you do for somebody you love
Smile and deal with it is usually the best course
Sometimes it is bigger and looking away or getting on with it just does not sit well
There now for you though would rather not be
For you
Because of you
For you that is the only reason this situation rises again
Know that this might be the last time even for you
This is something I would rather pass on and not do

C@rainbowchaser2020

She danced along Nova Scotia's bay
Every care and thought melted away
Remnants of a dream and glistening water on the sea
That yesterday and tomorrow were carefree
He ran like a bull set free from a china closet looking for a reason
He wanted a chance to change for now and every season
It would be easier to let it be
Today was a nightmare and tomorrow he might never see
They stayed together forever and an explanation didn't matter
They never married because a soul or two could shatter
This was a story she wrote and saved
See the title was Manana was carefree
And all gratuities were waved
It was remnants of a dream for people like you and me
Today was a disaster and tomorrow was carefree
Wake up and feel the breeze on a autumnal day
Remember how the Summer caressed your cheek that way

C3rainbowchaser2020

An unrequited love and the story goes
Missed walking along side of you on the beach
You are good company on those treks
Accompanied by thunder and lightning all so exciting
Rhythm and rhyme and the feeling so sublime
It is all about the rain
Soothing me slowly and gently
Pounding me awake when need be
You have always left it well with me
Thought some might think it insane
It's all about the rain

C@rainbowchaser2020

Did you not look inside?
Did you not wrestle with yourself last night when sleep refused to come?
Did you let the demons in your heart find their way clear across the universe in limbo?
Did you really enjoy your day?
Did you embrace all the honey and lemon from every single moment?
Are you living for a weekend again?
Try sharing and and giving instead of wanting!

C@rainbowchaser2020

You loved words
You loved books
You write like an angel
Looking for a better way
You were a highly sensitive person
Who was bullied and destroyed
You ended that torture by throwing yourself into an on coming bus
You jumped off the Verrazano narrows bridge
You were not born to end it this way
Rest In Peace

C@rainbowchaser2020

I wear my heart on my sleeve
Sorry that you cant deal with that
Stop stepping on my heart
My words are measured and carefully thought through
Just how high and mighty are you?
Stop stepping on my heart
You are who you are
I am who I am
Let's not pretend anymore
Stop stepping on my heart
Tired of healing from yesterday's scars

C@rainbowchaser2020

Thanks for what was but will never be again
In this case ,never say never does apply
The three strikes your out rule does apply here
Friendships should be easy and cherished
You shouldn't have to work hard at them
They should fall right back into place
No matter the time or distance
Not sure if some people are good candidates
My forward walk is easy because what is is what matters
What was only applies to memories that have become nightmares
You can only be burned enough to know the difference
When one door shuts another definitely opens

c@rainbowchaser2020

Find it in yourself
Be kind
Listen very carefully
Think before you speak
Find it in your heart
Spend your time wisely
Take a risk every now and then
Playing it safe makes for a " what if life"
Look beyond what you see
Find it in your heart
Sometimes you have to cut ties
Saying goodbye is easier than hanging on
Your time and effort is precious
You have to send it to the wind
Find it in your heart
The next best thing
Might be around the corner
Could be in front of your face
Might have gotten up and left
Be open for possibilities
Find it in your heart
Every butterfly feels the need to return to a cocoon
You don't earn your wings easily
When you do
Wear them well
Fly high and free
Find it in your heart

C@rainbowchaser2020

you'll be  private smile on a raw day
your words will echo warmly like a trusted well-worn blanket in need of a replacement
you don't have the heart to do that, do you?
The laughter will soothe a rainy dreary day
all the bad memories will be moments we should have never wasted
your place will be scrap booked  with photographs and montages
our time will never be again
we wont wonder why Hello became good bye
In time

C@rainbowchaser2020

Rolling open on the ground no visible contents
Searching to be filled or occupied with a task
Almost like a Senior citizen with memories worth repeating but nobody listening
Nobody paid it any mind but it refused to be thrown away
Needed to be useful but there was nothing to do but pass through
It didn't escape the sanitation pickup this time like a shelter dog waiting for a visitor or crying because the forever home still awaits
The bag was filled with yesterday with no thoughts of today or tomorrow

C@rainbowchaser2020

Were you saying Hello yesterday?
He's not here
Guess he is everywhere we go
As long as we remember
Sitting at a publishing meeting
Ironically the book in the Great Wall of their published books eight behind my shoulder read "Manuel"
Didn't catch the author's name
The title struck me
Of all the places and spaces before me
How did that particular title show up?
Coincidence?
Hi Daddy!
I miss you!
He's not here
He's everywhere
As long as we remember

C@rainbowchaser2020

Book ends
Old friends
Nightmares
Day dreams
Triggers
Pulling you down again
Making darkness your frenemy
Nothing Pollyanna about blue days and stormy nights
Talk to me
Tell me the bad never becomes good
Dealing with it is not enough
Finding the road and easing down it
Knowing that the rain ends
The light you seek is inside your heart
Returns when it beat normally again
Dead Ends
Old Friends
Here's to the
light of Life
C@rainbowchaser2020

Don't know your reasons why
your yesterdays
are not part of our todays
or of our tomorrows
You are missing out on one of the greatest treasures, and you'll never know why
Writing about it is one thing
but the experience is something quite different
I could spend my life writing about Love,
but you have never
Open your been there
Let someone in
deserving of all that you are
Want to dance at your wedding
want you to tell me what it is like sharing a rainstorm
or a bad dream
It is your turn,and please
don't complain anymore
Either do something about it,or
nothing at all
I am so sorry,'but I can't hear it any longer
Stopped listening long ago

C@rainbowchaser2020

You wanted Barbie and some nonsense that size doesn't impress you contour does
Being in lust with hormone exploding did not think about that
Should have sent you in search of Barbie.
You were no Ken
Took two years and Prince Charming to come into my life
Was not looking and there he was
October will be our 40th wedding anniversary
As for you, Italian Stallion
Hope you found Barbie and you are happy
He still rocks my world and still makes me proud to be his wife and best friend

C@rainbowchaser2020

I love the support and thrilled some of my fellow poets are buying my book.
I beg you please don’t put a one star review.
If you don’t care fir the book,leave no review because Paws for Purple Hearts get a portion of my royalties and one star reviews hurts sales.

Thanks

I have been in darkness and Shades of Gray
My words protect and comfort me
They saw me change my course and live my life as completely and happily as possible
No longer an enabler or co-dependent
My wish is that you find your path and come through to a happier side.

C@rainbowchaser2020

Not certain there are more books in me
Those that follow me here .
Bought my book, do protest.
Probably know better than I admit .
Supposed to be?
My cues come from photographs, fragments, Mother Nature and Father Sky
Sometimes conversations never meant to be overheard
I was there and did not want to listen
Fitting in stopped long ago for me
Long ago, I knew what was supposed to be
You be you and just let me be me
like it's supposed to be
We don't impress easily

C@rainbowchaser2020

Make yourself comfortable as you are in good company
Spring day in January
The Theme song for Global warming in undertones
Thoughts and feelings some in check
This is where they are placed
Others wandering in Space or in an alternative Universe
Turning a deaf ear doesn't always work
Especially as a writer who is awakened at strange times at night with prompts and ideas
If you can let things go and go with the flow
That is good for you
Us sensitive types, the creative kind
This is not one of our gifts
In fact, sitting on the shelf over there puts things in prospective
for the time being

C@rainbowchaser2020

Do Angels whisper in the wind?
Sometimes when it is blustery for no apparent reason like a moment ago
Are you sending a message or messages?
I am listening.
What would like to say?
Are you watching over us?
Sometimes dogs that I never make their human parents come over to kiss or greet me
Angels whisper and dogs hear them

C@rainbowchaser2020

Poor philanthropist
Definitely take issue with this
You don't have to be fabulously rich to volunteer or help
A little here and there does go along way
Time and effort make a huge difference
If you are so consumed with yourself
Selfish and cruel
It is your issue
If it a burden, that is different avenue to walk on
But don't call a human being that cares a Do Gooder
They are in great company and we need more in the world
Rather be selfless and caring

C2rainbowchaser2020

Somebody crossed the line
Meant well but should have initiated brain and not mouth
Just because you think of something doesn't give you the right to hurt somebody
Intention has nothing to do with it
Keep it to yourself
There are those out there with a mission to fix people
Take them as they are if you have a chance at a friendship
That is a word that should never be given out randomly or assigned without consideration
As does the word Love
People with no filter need to keep their distance

C@rainbowchaser2020

The call of Nature and Desire can't always be helped
Nothing ****** or base
You just want love and affection
For whatever the reason and that doesn't really matter
It isn't always when you want it
So when the Cosmos is in your favor
You have to savor those precious moments
Call upon them as sweet memories
Hopefully we all have a supply to keep us in check

C@rainbowchaser2020

Looking up and ahead
Amazing what you can notice when you are not fixated on your cell phone or ipod.
Sky colors change and have nuance
The wind rearranges depth and scope of everything it touches
You can take your time and take it in or not
While
Walking

C@rainbowchaser2020

The reviews are lovely.
With my gratitude and respect to my fellow writers.
If you are interested my book,Put your boots on and dance in the rain is available on Amazon.com

It protects me
Keeps me awake
Forces me to refocus
Makes me kinder and grateful
Helps me deal when the world makes me feel closed and lost
Reminds me to tune in and cautions me when to tune out
The craft of it challenges me
The art and other writers cheer me on
Mother Nature is a major source if inspiration
It never ever gets boring
Even when insomnia sets in

C@rainbowchaser2020

Soul mates and best friends living our adventures
Some routine and some pristine
Others wonderful surprises that others might take for granted
There is nothing I would not do for you to help you or make your days more pleasant
That goes for how you treat me
You gave me your heart and name decades ago
We are very different
We agree to disagree
The respect and joy shared is the greatest gift
So the next time you want to utter those two words, remember We are long past Thank you

C@rainbowchaser2020

Making them is not fun
Sometimes necessary because feelings should not be trampled upon
Many have a truckload ready
Just once the truth but even that is private and better left unsaid
Even if the truth is none by the other party
Talk about nothing
Examine your heart and your mind
They need to be separated in situations such as this
Remember that writers especially Poets are sensitive souls
This stuff that would not even cross your mind keeps them up at night
In the wee hours of the morning some are prolific or are trying to be
Too many excuses are a waste of time and energy
Excuse yourself when necessary

C@rainbowchaser2020

The world is upside down
Wish it could change
New decade and too many fears cloud visionaries
Ideas are there
Competition and imbalance are a problem
Old school and new school thinking have to forge a partnership
Some used to bes still count
Herstory and History find common ground
You have to know yesterday to deal with today and hope for tomorrow
No guarantees
Too many afraid of change
Let people be and live their lives without comment or judgment
Destroying life because of hatred and lack of understanding doesn't work
Technology is incredible but people don't just talk face to face anymore
They insult each other and comment on social media
I am sorry

C@rainbowchaser2020