Joan Beebe (left) and fellow contributor Michael Robinson

I hear a sigh in the distance and suddenly
Realize it had come from me.
My dreams are of long ago when
Life was simpler and most days
Happiness surrounded me.
My sighs keep on and my dreams
Become a source of comfort.
I am whispering into the night
When there is no one to hear me.
I whisper my dreams into the darkness.

Loneliness

I am lonely and afraid —
My thoughts travel back to
A time of togetherness with
My birth family.
The house was always filled
With friends, relatives and neighbors.
Mom in the kitchen preparing supper and
Dad in his favorite stuffed chair smoking
His special pipe and listening to me play
The piano.
The days were filled with the warmth and
Love that one could always sense.
There never seemed that life had to
Rush by —  life was just there.
My emotions are difficult with which to deal.
Though I have a small family of my own,
I long for those by-gone days of yesteryear.

SURVIVAL

Life is a long  fight for survival, or so it seems.
I know there are so many confusions and health issues –
Families can be part of this  and cause us to feel real pain.
Our thoughts become a source of sadness and longing..
Our emotions become deep with despair.
Yet, we keep a glimmer of hope within ourselves.
We pray, talk to friends and browse through old pictures
Suddenly our thoughts turn to the future and the feelings
Of hope and faith begin to shape our mind instead of relentless
Depression.
The opportunities and gifts have been so many as we remember
the joy and happiness some have brought.
So we begin to change our selves
and look forward to sharing time and talents
in special ways with those around me.
We finally experience peacefulness within our soul.

Joan Beebe (left) and fellow contributor Michael Robinson

NATURE’S FURY

California fires stretching across thousands

Of acres with trees and brush waiting to

Feed this monster’s appetite.

Great walls of flames devouring

The ready food of timber.

Flames and smoke rising higher into the sky,

But the ongoing march of this giant of fire

Still taking with it hundreds of homes

And other buildings.

Many evacuations and those people

Have no choice but to escape

The persistent oncoming wall of flames.

It will take many years to recover the land

And the normal lives of those who lost everything.

However, the day will come when nature will

Take over and the beauty that was once

There will again be glorious in its new life.

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