Goodbye Poem

Loaded car, didn't shed a tear.

Everything seems small.

Drove by our old house.

Ammie heals from bunion surgery.

Twenty four hour care costs dear.

Wheelchair doesn't fit the hall.

Taste of plaque in teeth clouds

memories, wish you lived near.

Cooler holds two days meals.

Everything seems small.

Fig jam in blue Kerr jars.

Jalapeno, rose lavender flavors 

in calico fabric bees wax seals.

Sauce you love with meatball

packed on ice for the drive. 

Waved bye to backs of wheels.

Everything seems small

Miss you, that's all.

Poem copyright 6/25/2017 Caroline Gerardo

photos Rodney Mississippi

Coming and Going

 Coming and going

Days in a high rise

Nights on the ranch

Before sun breaks fog

Before Big Red crows

There's melody dance

Ignore egg becomes toad

Salvation in an $18 cross

Before you fall to knees

Before you miss mother

There's bagpipes of loss

coming and going

Kitsch red rose 

Cliche emoji tear

Before step on crack

Before step over penny

There's grateful fear.

poem 6/23/2017 copyright Caroline Gerardo

Heat Wave Poem

Burn wave

Heat pricks scorpions

search swimming holes

No place for guardians

protect Salton Sea scrolls

Burn wave

Spontaneous fires

not quelled by fog

flap power line wires

melt hot lung smog

Burn wave

Climate isn't changing

nay Sayers are certain

graphs always ranging

Earth begs shade curtain

Heat wave

copyright 6/21/2017 Caroline Gerardo 

Dovey Dee Reverence for White

Hold nature in your hands

Cup fingers to allow light.

White hot sky and lands

Cerulean memory at night.

Trekked to see an old friend's work,  Dovey Dee's art delivers her lifelong passion for landscape. The paintings seem covered in mist and sand from being too close to the sky, but no they are dry. 

Returning to Pomona was a pleasant surprise. I once owned a building on Holt (it had ghosts but that's another story).  The town has a lively Arts Community with live music, food vendors, many crafts and booths. I wandered for an hour and kept the joy of Dovey's work in my heart all night. 

Reverence for whites in nature. 

Swans perhaps my favorite image of her show


Da Gallery 252 S Main St # D, Pomona, CA 

Abandon Divorce

Abandon Divorce with Joy Poem

Attorney fee eats cash in bank 

Cheaters take each dime

Exercise, yourself to thank 

Friends  reveal  in time.

Meaningful seeds in photographs

Sea salt upon white wedding dishes

Anger wasted on pews of collapse

Crummy dad ignores child's wishes.

Fill this empty church with joy

Muscles of your heart endure

Plan future of turmeric coin alloy

Freedom ahead photons the cure.

Caroline Gerardo 5/ 30/ 2017 

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