Smiling

Tending to the dream
From deep in the dark

Remembering the breath
Stolen away

Hoping much too hard
To bring you to life

Smiling nonetheless
For that’s what you loved

Sunrise to Sundown

May Monday
Look Like
Only One
Small Smile
After Another

The big talk
And any glitter
What early signs of a smile
Framing eased eyes
Tilled under now
Deep
Don’t think
It’ll grow

Take today aside
Wearing that very same smile
Speaking only truth

Seeing you hand-held,
I ache. Yet I pray and smile
most earnestly, oh.

I have fancy eyes
And smiles that last forever
With which to make haste

What to do with these eyes
Stricken since soon after birth
This beaming
Grin
Staccato-broken by battered hope

These ruining that
Silken, star-reaching
Silhouette
Who is thee
What to do they both wondered

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Lisa Rosier

Alarm sounds off
Eyes wide now
Feet hit floor
One deep breath
Mission this day
Help one heart
First things first
Take His hand
Smile real big

Laugh
You’ve no choice
But to throw off that placid shroud
That stale air
To look far
Into your smile
And even if without reason
Laugh

When we stand content
Then there shall the horizon
Conspire to smile