Friday, November 1, 2024

JUANITA GARCIA VERA

 


 

A Living Dream

 

Walk gently upon the Earth

Leaving prints

The wind will scatter

Like sand across

The echoes of time

Composing song

On its journey

So deeply rich

A melody

Sways my soul

In softest waves

Of peaceful breeze

Floating above

The ocean blue

As I lay dreaming

A living dream

© Juanita Garcia Vera

 

A Twig

 

I planted

Became  colossal  tree

Providing abundant shade

The  blooms   dinner plates

Pink beautiful and fragrant

Looked like the wings

Of doves in flight

It’s dark green  massive leaves

Like mirrors in my eyes

Thick bark protected

Its spirit from oozing life

I watched it grow

With much love

Feeding, weeding

Loving care

But like all things , it also died

It fell

it’s roots exposed

To die in front of me

In spring I started

Once more a garden

Mulched, weeded

And water it

2 weeks later I saw

The small twig

It was green shiney

Like my dreams

A sapling from

The original tree

Again, I mulched

And cared for it

And see growth

Each day

Hoping,  one day

I’ll get to sit

Beneath its shade

and remember

the scraggly twig

That grew to tree

It was the place

wherechildhood

dreams grew carefree

where my mind

could see life’s

endless run

Where I could take refuge

From the Summer heat

Where I could lie down

And count the stars

And wonder

How far they were

And how small we were

 

If Love Is Not Forever

 

If Love is not forever

And not forever true

Why do we die in darkness?

Waiting for love anew

Is there any wonder

Why there’s so much pain

Why so many people

Filling soul with gains

Why so many killings?

Why so many endings?

If the old and lonely

And the homeless kin

And the little children

Find no kindly stranger

To grow hope again

If in life no love exists

Why the World is spinning

With the hope of living

And little of giving

While we count the riches

Of the pretty pennies

While the soul is drowning

In a World of greed

In a World of power

And we die in darkness

Taking lives of many

© Juanita Garcia Vera

 

JUANITA GARCIA VERA

 

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