mid-summer

Fireflies flicker in the thicket at dusk

Winking in the warm breathless night

Little beacons luring mates or prey

Being neither, I delight in their display

I heard there were more this year

This evening bears that out

Sequins on the lawn 

before the dew settles

A week of calm before 

the Cicadas arrive to crow

The slow decline of summer

And the next turn of the page

My Heart Was Built For Breaking

January 21, 2013 at 10:33 PM

Ian Hanchet

It's better to have a broken heart

than to have an unspoken part

To love in life is to do your part

So never stop believing

It's better to have loved and lost

Even at such a saline cost

than to cover up your heart in frost

Just because she's leaving

And even though it's aching

And to get through days I'm faking

It's love I still be making

This heart was built for breaking.

©2013 IGH

Mum

There was nothing left
Before she left
Erosion stole her
And there was nothing
I could do for her
That birthed me 
And fed 
and sheltered
And comforted 
And clothed
And listened
And held
And taught
And scolded
And worried
And most of all
Loved.
"Hush little baby
Don't you cry,
You know your mama
Was born to die....
All my trials, lord
Soon be over"