The Poetry Room
Poetry is my way of listening and expressing myself. It brings forth memory, grief, wonder, faith, and healing in a metaphorical dance.
This space is a collection of poems shaped by the changing seasons of life. These words are influenced by elements like wind, fire, and sea, as well as feelings of loss and longing, and the transformative power of hope.
“Kaleidoscope Words” is my forthcoming poetry collection and companion journal—a curated selection of poems and reflections that invite you to read, linger, write, and witness the shifts that occur when light changes.
✨ The new release is expected in March or April 2026.
Thank you for being here—taking the time to read slowly, listen deeply, and enjoy a poem with your morning coffee or evening beverage. Shut off your screens and find a quiet space to experience poetry as if for the first time, all over again.
Musing: On A One And Passing Day
The following poem was sent to me today by a dear friend, Merri Trifiro. Her words brought me to tears. What her eyes seen resonated in my soul so deeply, I was moved to share it with YOU.
I am fortunate to live in a warm climate by the water’s edge, and I was moved today to write my observations, my evening musings on this one, and the passing of the day.
There is a flourish of activity that comes with the setting sun…
My seat and feet planted
in the grass, I can feel the breezes
Fluffing, like billowy bloused arms of a royal nursemaid, hurrying to ready the sun for bed…All unfolds in sensory splendor until the last frame is captured with a single blink of the shutter.
A moment that will never come again…
This capture is emblazoned upon me like lasers etching my inner eyelids
A Marvelous Still
remains amidst this soft and furious bustle…
Looking Out
at the Sound skipping and dancing beneath this brushed and dappled sky…
Suddenly, my eye catches
Two Fish
Leaping up from the wavy stage
They flop down,
Slapping the surface waters, Breaking the rhythms
their white bellies briefly exposed to the wide expanse above, where
Two Least Terns, trilling sharply, Dart in crazy eights in a frantic aerial chase,
Pulling behind them a dusky drapery …
As the scene, after a stage set change
Enter now,
Five Canada geese in V formation
Fly like an arrow below the clouds,
Ripping a seam in the gray flannel sky
From east to west
All this in such a Wondrous display of this one and passing day!…
Looking Up
Now, in the clouds above,
I see Umbrellas of wispy jellyfish,
under which a playful pup and dolphin are frolicking
In reflection,
I imagine this as a scene rising up out of the dreams cast upon the waters…
Dreams from the depths of the darkening mysteries
They surface projected on the screen of a dusky sky…
I still See in Shadows of Light
Meanwhile, the darting, trilling terns are interrupted by the ominous flight of an osprey
in their midst…
The terns are silent while
the osprey circles
Then all, fly Onward…
Looking Down, upon this coastal plain, inches above the greening blades
A squadron of huge dragonflies in a thick swarm, arrive from the Northside
carrying double saddlebags of some heavy payload,
They Buzz the lawn on twilight patrol…
The curtain slowly pulls Westward,
Like a painted canvas shade
Pulled upon the Night’s flurry….
Closing my eyes, I Listen
for its song,
The yawning day whispers now, in hushed, muffled tones,
Singing a faint lullaby to the sun, that has sunken silently into slumber,
Dreaming now, of all the rainbows, and brightest hopes…
There’s a Promise in the tweeting serenade still heard in the Dark
An Ode to the Coming Light
When a New Day, breaks
Selah
Yom TOV, Beloved
Merri Trifiro
Whisper and Shout, by Guest Author Merri Trifiro
Love Does as Love IS…
be in whisper or shout
Midst discords of sorrow
shards poke tear and
Shatter
Harmonies
Singing ’bout Joy
drowns out noise from the fray
Refocusing drift
Leaning in to what say
Voices
Singing Love’s rhythms..
Up up and Away!
Through life’s ebb and flow
Hands reach high and low stretched out
Wide
Catching leaves from the trees…
Make a poultice of balm
for Healing
Inside
Making it right
wrapped in graces
Reconciling Night’s scars
etched in Dark places
In the alchemy of smelting
Annealing
Prepare
for Next flight
Wings filled with lift upward
From the doldrums
Adrift
Onward yes, upward in heights beyond reason
Through Eyes of an eagle
In this Season, a Rift
To synchronize Time
Heartbeat of a Dove
mix in whispers
Discerning
Find
Yet in Darkness,
EverLove’s yearning!
Head
turned toward Heart,
Held cupped
In His Hands
Peek through Wonders beyond
into a Wondrous land!
Soaring
Free-falling
diving into the Deep
Catching shadows from dreams
That we dream in our sleep..
Awakening
to Shatter
At Dawn’s rising
Weep
A salty release
painting stripes down each cheek
We Rise up from our ashes
From bone’s smoldering pain
To a Newness
a Freshnes
Fragrant blooms in the rain
Look Up
Stretch Out
Reach Higher than stars
Past the light of the moon
and red mysteries of mars
Hope and Strength float on rivers
Rest through rapids
On logs
Casting upstream long lines in the dense rising fog
Downstream
All gather
Assembled through Time
Catching Vision now streaming Living colors
Not seen…
Tasting like grapes from a vat of Sublime
In Celebration we cease
from testing
Now Resting
all the pieces of Me
Glued
Of Broken Bread
soaked in salty -sweet wine
Hung like a garment on Love’s
laundry line
Not to dry but to
Breathe
Afresh..
Alas, nothing is left
Stripped like a bed
from old dusty Nefesh!
A Free space to vibrate ’til
Resonance sings
True purpose and will
IS to us All Good things
The End of me Start of me
Feeling Brand New!
Come, break the Dawn
of this mystery
Come!
Whisper and shout
All Love IS For you!