

Love Is A Butterfly...
Inspired by Dolly Parton Love is a butterfly Comes as a surprise, like rainbows Soft and beautiful Strong and mighty. Love is a butterfly Rare and lasting Beautiful colors And when love arrives, it makes our hearts dance and flutter Amazing as love is It is a butterfly. Love, Paula


I wish
To jump in a pile of crisp dried Golden leaves and be a child Take me back there, can you please? I want to feel crunching beneath my feet Take me back there, can you please? To go trick-or- treating in a homemade bat costume, a black sweatshirt with paper wings Take me back there can you please? Friends with flashlights to brighten the night and startle the ghosts Take me back there, can you please? Halloween parties with apple cider and decorated cookies Take me back ther


Mother Laureate
Poetry was made for mothers, scribbling stanzas in stolen moments during bath time, defenseless against sudsy splashes, or silently and by nightlight after her child succumbs to sleep. Long works of prose demand rooms of one’s own, but rooms shared with baby dolls can be the birthplace of verse. Her efforts to tidy will be undone like a sandcastle by the rising tide, but poems, once penned, will last forever. Her most celebrated culinary feat may be smearing peanut butter on







