listen to their dreams
Dont step on their hearts
Encourage them to be brave
Regrets will happen but not because trying never happened
Doors open when you least expect them too
Never should mot be part of your vocabulary
Your heart is absolutely worth it
You will find in time that you are too
Shut off those voices in your head telling you to give up
Inspiration
C@rainbowchaser2019

Our incredible treasures and memories
Are you joking?
You are beyond comprehension

All we are saying is give peace a chance as John Lennon sang
A Pink chalk ******* in the US at a time when the world needs to reexamine itself?
Many of us love people of different faiths and ideals in our families as well as friends
This was beyond anything as vile and corrupt
Chalk-drawn ******* in a private parking lot
The Holocaust happened long ago and many people have relatives that didn't survive
History does not need to repeat itself again

C@rainbowchaser2023

Nasty dismal overcast day with rain on and off
Then this little one appeared on a tall tree
In blue finery bopping,tapping,fluttering and shimming,.
A dancing solo
Bravo little dynamo
Take a bow
You made a gray day sunny and bright

C@rainbowchaser2023

The Glad company is indebted to you because you throw it all away
Anything five minutes ago isn't in your radar
Quantity seems to matter more than quality
If it ain't broke don't fix
Money should be spent not saved
If you have earned it then tbe decision is yours to make
While we are it do what you please in your house
Not a real estate broker staging an event for a hopeful sale
Leave us alone with what's new with you?
You are welcome to visit but hit self edit button before you arrive

C@rainbowchaser2022

The muses are there
Happily, there is something to write with on call
Letting go isn't easy
Like any process, you have to get there
No instructions or rules
Death leaves you in a void and then you just appreciate who you had
Not just what you lost
Their impact and the stories they told and shared
See it all about the stories just told in different ways
Learning lessons from them is quite something different for everybody
Right now, it is empty


C@rainbowchaser2021

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

Edit
Diet
Tied
Tried
Will fill it with great care
Empty
C@rainbowchaser2023

HSPs sounds like a company
A network
It is an acronym that we want others to accept before they understand
If they possibly can
People with gentler stronger hearts that see the world differently  
Live the world from a higher plain
Bullied and members of the elite walking wounded
Always creative thinkers  never understood
In time would stand out from the crowd time
We still ask many questions and sometimes have answers before the question is broached
We weather many storms and let them go a little longer
Wounds heal but scars bring things back to the heart of the matter
We are all about heart
We take things out of the flow
We choose not to go with it
We are all about soul
We are Highly Sensitive people

C@rainbowchaser2020

Tests your vigor and vim
Tests your vinegar
Your power to be good, thoughtful, and kind
Even when gray clouds surround you on the sunniest of days
Even when you wanted to dance in the rain jumping puddles
It's always something
Sometimes someone
But Debbie and Derek downers get out of the way
Even if it's always something

C@rainbowchaser2022

The dream is coming true on 12/2.
Part of proceeds going to paws for purple hearts which raises and trains support dogs for first responders and veteran dealing with ptsd and Depression.
Amazon.com on 12/2.
Put on your boots and dance in the rain got its start when I joined Hello Poetry so the website is listed in the book acknowledgements.
I will keep writing here. Thanks to my fellow poets and Elliott.

Why should a friendship end because of personal choices?
Straight people can have Gay friends.
There are all kinds of friends.
As there are colors, shapes, sizes, and vistas.
They are friends and not defined.
I lost you because you can only walk and live in the category you placed yourself in
Seems a waste and useless.
Yesterday has come and gone as you say in your email.
It's funny as you didn't have the guts to tell me about your life choice in person but called on the telephone.
Hope you are happy and not alone.
You left.

C@rainbowchaser2023

Middle class philanthropist recognizes those with warped sense of priorities
Namely the wealthy
Maybe that should go unsaid
Beyond their comprehension
Do riches cloud their point of view?
Are they that deranged?
One stroke of a pen could change negatives to positives.
Make a life come alive and fruitful
An average woman could have flown into space with those celebrities.
Jeff could afford a freebie and changed the future of women and space exploration
Science would
have greater dimensions
No matter your passion and bank account reach out to help this world
Many need help
Take the first step

Wish you had showed me about family
Told me of them
Welcomed them
Had you let go of issues and taught me about our ancestors when you were here
Those I have come to know wish we could turn back time
Grow up together
Know us as children
Been there and around us when you were taken from us so early
We have a large family
It is time for me to know the people you never shared with me
The reasons no longer matter
You would have turned 95 tomorrow
With your children,sons in -law ,grandchildren, great grandchildren,and  your cousins' children
Mom is with you now and you are no longer alone
August is fifty years since you left way too soon
It is time to celebrate you and what is
C@rainbowchaser 2023

Walking around Vak-Kil
Your advice and words remind us that the purpose of life is to experience it
Taste it
Enjoy it
Savor it all
When FDR was still living and after
The walls echo of the great and small you entertained there
Many photos and feeling as if your spirit is there even now and forever more
You were almost President for you filled the role at a time it was not accepted
Wonder what advice you would have for Vice President Harris today?
As we left your gravesite at Hyde Park, you left an impact
Eleanor.

All of the books written about you and those you authored still amaze a person who lives in a different time and place

Thanks,Eleanor

C@rainbowchaser2024

A year will soon come and go just like she did
A chasm is there and just is dormant
Photographs, videos, and memories
Like a spirit rising in a balloon out of sight but not out of mind
Covid started the downfall but though she fought valiantly there was never another August
She has the company of her husband and others gone before her
She comes  in the middle of the night
She visits when things fall down when they should not
She watches over her great granddaughter who never knew her
She did see her from a window in a hospital
She did meet her great grandson who will turn three when late Summer arrives
She knows we still grieve but people and places to see and visit
She is gone but not forgotten but everybody knows that she is somehow always around
Every now and then the cell phone doesn't ring and Heaven is a long distance call that can't be made
She is every shade of purple in a rainbow of her own design

C@rainbowchaser2021

Look at song lyrics
Broadway musicals to Rock and Roll
Gain
Pain
Sorrow
Tomorrow
Some are sound alikes
Others spot on
So we carry on
Thinking about what is
What was
What will be
Power of the rhyme
Sublime

I will take your pain and illnesses so you are happy
I will turn off the naysayers who hear but don't listen
No matter where or when
No matter the weather or hour of the day
No matter whenever
I will always love you and put you first
As for the others that are selfish and out for themselves
I haven't the time for you

C@rainbowchaser2023

Quiet befriended me and the best companion when least expected
Moving forward while treading carefully
It is more than incredible to watch a butterfly or marvel at Mother Nature's other children
So much better than chit chat and gossip from voices I choose to silence
They mean well but a waste of time for me
Now

C@rainbowchaser2023

Gentle Moxie
Lush
Plush
Puffy clouds in a blue sky
Explosion of color
Even though we didn't attend but hope to down the road
They like time and shade
Particular as to home and how they are watered
They are adored
After all we have been through and gone through
Nice to know that Hydrangeas bring comfort and joy
They make you smile

C@rainbowchaser2022

You live in my heart
Not in hollowed ground
You are not there
You are here,tbere,and everywhere
Hard to think of you as photographs and memories
You left us very young and we were very Young too
Say Hello to Mom and happy you are no longer alone
When monarch butterflies and rainbows find me
I know you are around
Perhaps that
Is why I chase rainbows

C@rainbowchaser2022

Nothing ordinary about it
It is extraordinary
Your take away is that simple and  simply are divine
Think very carefully before you utter another word
Don't even think a thought
Before you jump a boundary don't go there
Think before you say something that might hurt somebody
You may regret it
Rather walk away with my head held with no regrets
Mentioning them not worth it

C@Rainbowchaser2022

FCC and CBS not simpatico
Now do we boycott CBS because of the end of Colbert?
Very wrong Paramount and CBS!
He can"t speak the truth while Grand Orange lies?
The end of PBS because quality means nothing to them?
They want Education of any kind otber than their idea of it to end?
Spoken as an educator!
Pathetic

Writing on a work break
Well known coffee shop drinking iced tea in December
You can mean well
Have no ulterior motives
Things don't always work out
Your goods intentions just have no place to go
So you lead by example
Going it alone until the dream comes true

C@rainbowchaser2021

Drawn to Pooh, Paddington, and the Care Bears.
They adorn my home office and are my heart.
Working virtually somedays,they keep me company
Looking at them makes me comfortable
Kindness, goodness and sensitivity define me
Those that take advantage or try have been in my tears and hurt my heart
Villains and the vicious are forewarned to get out of my way
I am the Human Care Bear
If that troubles you than take leave now
Forever more, even better

Grateful there was a spoon at all
Don't expect much
I have learned to accept
There are worlds of difference between the two
If Nature and The Arts make you happy as they do me
Enjoy
Tune into it
Tune out the Rude and Uninformef
Look inside your heart
You will find your way
Enjoy your journeys more
Trust yourself
Do your homework
You will arrive

Were you born with a silver or golden spoon in your mouth?
Are you of Royal Blood or Superior DNA?
Even if you are well connected
You should have to earn what you get and deserve to get it.
Working hard and achieving even when you get knocked down
You stand up and go for it again
Believing
Trying
Then Achieving
Whether it is one moment in time or many.
Entitled, I think not.
Deserving, perhaps.

C@rainbowchaser2023

I was part of your yesterdays
We had each other's dreams and backs
No promises for today
No weekly phone calls
No guarantees for tomorrow
May every dream and wish come true in great health and happiness
It may or may not include me or you
Sometimes change is needed to move on and move forward
You left a long time ago and I can't expect it to be the same as it used to be just because you are back
Thanks for yesterdays
It was something to remember like photographs in an album

Do you have to do something bad to get something good?
Imbalance rears its concern
Lady luck and and her sister bad luck don't always work in tandem
You want the former and not the latter in your life
Did it mean something?
Did it catch your breath in mid air?
Did it take you anywhere?
Did it even get you off the keyboard and out of your chair?
Human Nature
C@Rainbowchaser2022

How can it be stronger?
I have no clue
Been with you almost all of my adult life
We found each other when we least expected it
No matter what life throws at us
Or graciously bestows upon us
There is nothing short of a felony because that is not me
That I would not do for and because of you
No Herculean task would be too great
Can I love you any better?
I doubt it
You know stopping me would involve jumpimg over galaxies
I love you more than I even know.
Better

C@rainbowchaser2022

Not sure if a publisher will come and call again
Open to it but not depending on it
Writing is my craft and sometimes platform
Always trying to polish it and perfect it
Lately, observing and not trying to call in life is where it is right now
Yearning to travel and enjoy the world but not time yet
Patience is wearing thin and tired of people complaining
Yet, Patience surrounds me
We know what has happened, happening, and we are trying to move forward
So, Please don't ask
Trying to enjoy each day as it comes

C@rainbowchaser2021

I don't see what he sees in me
Beauty,charm,creativity,and his baby
Staying positive and caring in a world I know no longer recognize
With a mad man in the White House
His underlings are controlled by his every whim
Many not his own
All the love in the world surrounds us
No matter how caring and kind we are and may be
Through his beautiful blue eyes hoping the world will heal

My companion for longer than necessary to remember
You can move on and go forward but you don't forget
That knowledge serves you well no matter the circumstances
This is the time of year for flashbacks that are dealt with
Which is why we quietly stay on guard
Send the darkness to the light when you can
Be the light for others
Search for that place in your heart that allows you to care and share
Some are still in darkness
Let them in if you can if they are willing
Sometimes listening is the beginning they need
If somebody hurts you let them do what they do.
You do you
If it is meant  to be fences will be mended
Befriended by darkness does not need to be permanent and forever
It takes time and  you will get there

C@rainbowchaser2021

Trees dressed in their white cotton finery
Sun won't melt it away just yet
They bask in the winter sunshine
The fashion show a feast for the eyes
Warming the souls of those who have shoveled two storms so far

C@rainbowchaser2021

Roasted unsalted nuts are in the park shared on the ground near three trees as is weekly. routine
An East Coast teacher quit teaching and gets paid per poem
A professional poet?
What about us?
Now, the memoir goes to PR people.
Maybe we will get to the next step this time.
There are a few along the way
I am a poet
Maybe this time I am a writer
Wish me luck

Rules are meant to be broken and adapted
Case by case basis
You will find what best suits you
What works if you will
It could be staring right at you
You need to see it for yourself
Break it gently into your life
There is so much out there once you find it
More
So much more

C@rainbowchaser2019

I never want to see or think of you ever again
Enough to break a heart, but to share the story like a joke?
The Joke's on you
Would not want to see another like this
So we told the tale, no names
Time and place are different, but once you move forward, climb your mountain.
Never look down below
Here we go forward
Lessons learned and utilized

Truth be told
Lies and stories getting old
This is for life
Gold ring is a circle
Nothing more or less
Lover,life partner,best friend on a lifetime ride
When it is easy, great time to embrace the heart
When it is hard, cry and hold on like you never knew possible
Letting go is easy but hanging on and tough is the ultimate
The answer
The Other Side
Do your best to get there
In the meantime enjoy the ride
Take it all
Deep inside
The Other Side

You will always love sports, especially Hockey
It may or may not interfere with our plans
If you get tickets and only one is available just please go and enjoy
Been there and done that
Baseball and Tennis are the exceptions
So tonight will find a chore to do or there is always my poetry to keep me company
Should have known better with your sports and media background that this would not change
Thought one cup would make you happy but another will make you happier

C@rainbowchaser2023

Words that tumble out
Without thought
Stuck in the past
Anything new or different
Causes you to erupt
You must open your heart
As well as your mind
Unfortunately,you are stuck in gear
Try being mindful instead of mindless
Heartless

Some are temporary.
Some Lifelong.
Some were completely unexpected.
Some unexplainable.
Some stay the same at a distance.
Some grow.
Some end for reasons we will never fully know.
Some completely undeserving of us.

C@Rainbowchaser2023

Colored photographs framed and some in scrapbooks
That is how I will remember you
You have chosen to forget what was meant
So Long ago is today because that is all
that is left
No guilt,apologies,no second guessing
I will remember you
A year ago you forgot about me
Memories used to be great on rainy nasty days
Now,they are not cracked up to be the way they used to be
Nor do they matter
You have selected memory
This is a broken heart that will.never be repaired by surgery
The scar is all that is left

c@rainbowchaser2019

My new book is available on amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.com.
If you purchase it, please leave a review.
Most appreciated.
Some royalties will go to Cancer charities!

M

They have no voice
They have no choice
But they have us
Before it's too late
Remember saying goodbye means forever
Save them

C@rainbowchaser 2011

If you think then wake up at 2am and try not to wake anybody because that whisper woke you up
You are walking and you hope you have a pen or cell phone near by to jot an idea down
You are driving and Alexa isn't cooperating even though she usually does
Artificial intelligence might help us out when our input and output don't jive
You’re flying and you almost miss the fasten your seat belts call for landing
Been there and done that?
It's all about the words at least for me

C@rainbowchaser 2023

Angels CD arrived today
So excited about last night
Musical and writing chemistry like a new planet
What fun watching
Now to listen to the CD
Been awhile since I bought one
This is well worth the wait