Only the Bullied
Learn to Accept
Few or no friends
Frenemies?
They just have enough
No more
No less
They don"t expect
They were strippec of wanting anything else
When you are excluded
When your parent calls you Plain Jane
Made to sit with boys at school
You are not pretty enough by their standards
Your clothes are not nice enough
Your metal braces and rubber banded teeth don't fit in
You catch them doing things in school bathrooms thaf you wish you never witnessed
These memories come back to haunt you later on
No matter how successful you have become
Only the bullied know why children should never ever get away with doing this to others
Even now

Children
Taught them
Teach those that do
Nieces and nephews galore
Violent crime took the opportunity away when she was younger
Maybe that is why Mothers and Fathers Days are hard for many reasons
Yet,he loves her
Yet,she loves him
Never meant to be but
Love conquered all so cruelly taken

Ebony petite Ducks,Egrets,Seagulls,and Swans
Happily swimming and
eating
Flying into the blue
Still wishing I could join you
Jumping and enjoying the breeze
You've got to be carefully taught is an old song
With older lyrics and thoughts
You’ve got to be taught to listen,read, and see
Think carefully and use common sense
Be aware and true to yourself
Hopefully adults and children will contiue learning

School is not the only place to learn
Everywhere and every opportunity to be taught better

Your pain
Your disappointments
Your losses
Your mistakes
Then the rain stops
Storms end
Rainbows appear
Hopefully the dark clouds  become the Bluest  of skies

A six letter word with impact
Either we accept it or we struggle
What stays the same matters
What we remember and enjoy
We celebrate
The Kennedy Center will never be the same again
Said with sorrow and disgust
Culture and The Arts matter so much
The change within is another matter
We are better together
So look inside and think of others
Selfishness just does not work
Take care of yourselves
Remember some change requires us to adapt
Change for the better
Sometimes leaving well enough alone is the best choice

Tiger swallowtail butterfly accompanied me on my walk
Trying to live a positive and happy life
As of late, I find these words dancing and stomping in my head
Unprecendented
Illegal
Incredulous
Ignorance
Immoral
Chaos
Cruelty
Selfish
Insensitive
Rhymes with Dump
Rhymes with Dusk
Quid
Pro
Quo
Impeach

I am the Family Detective
DNA does not lie
Families feud and fight just like the Hatfields and McCoys did
People get left out
Thrown to the curb
Or forgotten about entirely
They never know their families or origins
If you are lucky enough to reach out
Hopefully reunite
You find out why certain aspects of your personality are what they are or.not
Five years the unknown became known
It happened to me
I am not adopted
Book to folllow
Who do you think you are?

Plain Jane
Echoes all the time
Her mother called her that
Writing
Travel
Research
Photography
Epicurean
Culture
Nature­
So when two swans joined together to form a heart today
The Ugly Duckling is his swan
Now and Forever

Eugenics seems to be what those who live in the past want.
All people deserve care and respect
The oval office and the occupant can't accept change
Many of us are rich in ways he will never know or comprehend
Know what you are talking about
Stop hating people
Accept,understand,and live a genuine life
We can't allow history to repeat itself
Wreak havoc and get revenge
He never should be in any office
Nor should his gang

5am and the words woke me
Similes and metaphors
Partial ideas and new twists
It happens now and then
Record some and write other things down
This has been going on for years but more often now
I guess I really am a poet and a writer

For the youngest
For those to come
For dreamers and planners
For Love
For Creativity
For Joy
For Peace
For Kindness
For Technology
For Today
For Now
For Tomorrow
For our future
For all

Nature is my favorite companion while walking
Little butterflies the size of half of a U.S.Dime seem to enjoy my company
The fact that sulfur colored butterflies symbolize positivity
alluded me but it fits
Lilac flowers of the same size and baby daisies
All people should live in peace and harmony
Prejudice needs to go the way of all disappointnents
The hope of all out weighs what  the US President wants
So be a butterfly
Enjoy life and stay as happy as you can

Turning a deaf ear
In one ear and out of the other
Listening and hearing are quite different
Accept and move on
Use your creativity and sensitivity as the gifts they are
Selfishness isn't your motto
Some are all about
When you love somebody
You make a life commitment
Does not work that way
Sharing and caring go hand in hand
Take tine for whom and what matters
Living a life your way
No excuses or explanations
No expectations

Walking is the best excercise especially when it clears your head, heart, and mind
One can focus and reflect quietly
Being caring,honest,kind,and sweet are assests
Given the current world,
One can be abused and used easily
Even by those they love
Being taken advantage of is hard to swallow and accept
Still recovering from that
So Nature and her children have befriended me
Walking write

They have to be set
Families and friends need to step to your tune
Demanding not permitted
How about asking?
Their expectations of your time and availability don't come first
Some will bid you farewell, so be it
Some will accept this despite their need to always get their way
Family comes first for some
Set the boundaries
Say no
There are all kinds of families
FIlled with narcisstists and troublemakers
Way past time to make it about you first if need be
Boundaries
Set then and adapt with yourself in mind

One was cleaning herself and catching dinner
Her partner swimming around
So elegant and lively
Exquisite and lovely
Rodgers and Astaire on water
Some can be nasty and mean
Yet at sunset
A truly stunning couple
Swimming towards each other
We wished them a lovely evening

Peace
Harmony
Respect
He can't see the forest from the trees
Common sense does not exist
Sense at all?
Compassion
Kindness
Honesty
Care
Heaven help us
How many lies can you listen to?

He drove her home from school late in the evening
Took his friend for roasted chestnuts while seeing the Holiday tree at Rockefeller Center
Gifted her a Teddy bear
He became her best friend and love of her life
Healed a broken heart and damaged soul with love
Introduced her to his parents as he placed an engagement ring on her hand
Danced with her to Jim Croce’s Time in a Bottle in October the following year at their wedding
Suddenly September

Second Love
Love of my life
First Love
One way street I should never have walked down
Contour impressing you not size
Hug contour or size?
He saw what you were unable to see
I was a nineteen year old with ripening hormones in college
When I stopped looking in graduate school
Surprise second love came by and stayed
Received first Masters and Mrs
He earned his as well.
He married me
Earned second masters degree
Several years later and
So did he
Very happily married

Rhyme is easy
Chorus must make sense
Literal or figurative
Let me see
Does the melody work?
Does it make sense?
It is original or just another version of yesterday?
When you find the vibe
When it fills your soul
Do you loose control
Congrats
You are a writer
Yes, it matters
Harmony, melody,pitch,and vibe
It is alive
Sing

Maybe this time
You hurt enough
Realize what you failed to see long ago
Even though a loved one tried to steer you straight
Is it easier to hurt than to decide you deserve to live your life happier and whole
They broke you down
Pick up the pieces
Discard what does not work
Find a direction that feels right
So you are a do Gooder
So you care more than others
So you are sensitive
They don’t have to like it
What about you liking yourself?
Enjoy your life
Maybe this time
You can be you
Let them be who they are
Even if they are family
Ever family has people like this
You are on the right side
Right side
Too sweet
Too kind
Too good for your own good

Always number one
That is how you want it
You matter and others must take their place behind you
Your Tiara,your highness is too tight
You open your mouth but your brain is not in sync with it
As long as you get your way
It doesn’t matter who you hurt
You gaslight so much that you don’t see the harm you cause
You can forgive to a point
It is not always about you
Even though you see it that way
Do you really see?

Keeper of the flame
Instilling values that still matter
Beacon of light
Thanks for fifty years of public service
Reminding us that no felon should serve as President
No person in government should be above the law
Democracy matters and should never change
Ancestors and immigrants who are enjoying tbe dreams and accomplishments their grandchildren and great grandchildren achieve
You showed us what we should do and can do.
The middle class matters and should not be overtaken by the rich and powerful
We need to stay free along with our institutions
Guns and killing children ,educators and people in schools or anywhere must never happen again
Time to be civilized
Women must choose what they do with their bodies not the government
AI can be helpful and solve great problems but must be utilized correctly and positively without any danger lurking
Farewell
Stay Well
President Biden

Donations are still being made
Crises all around housing ,Insurance,picking up the pieces if there are any.
Tears that won't dry
Core is helping people with shelter and moving forward
Coordination with FEMA too
If you can do nothing more than say a kind word or donate the multitiude of charities helping people and animals
Love to LA

Long ago not so far away
Monarch butterflies accompanying you on walks
Squirrels twirling their tails
So others know that someone came to feed them again
The aroma of the nuts called to them
Placing a lei on The Pearl Harbor memorial
The quiet was deafening
Dual rainbows over Pearl Harbor bidding us farewell
The weathered and damaged plaques remembering Amelia Earhart
Hoping it will be repaired as she deserves to be remembered
All that and so much more leaves an impact
Sometimes forgotten but remembered in dreams
Henry David remember when I touched your desk near Walden Pond
Dreams

Look at song lyrics
Broadway musicals to Rock and Roll
Gain
Pain
Sorrow
Tomorrow
Some are sound alikes
Others spot on
So we carry on
Thinking about what is
What was
What will be
Power of the rhyme
Sublime

You judged someone without talking with them
The disregard was rude and cruel
The disrespect unjustified
Your excuse of being too busy no longer works
You just dont want to make time
You judged someone based on bias and one side of a story
You are loved and wished the very best in life
For now Time for Goodbyes
The door is open but suggest you wait to be invited before you walk in

Time heals some wounds but bullying and repetition of what is expected and used to be does not
You can be too good for what it is worth
Your worth to yourself gets diminished especially when you are giving, kind, and sensitive
Going back for more of this narcisstic tirade?
Not this time

Recently visited Honah Lee in Hawaii.
Peter's song about Puff was recorded when I was very young.
We saw the area for Puff and the inspiration for the lyrics
We all sang along on the tour bus.
The sweetness and creativity was touching and endearing.
Maybe we need to revisit the meaning and genuiness now more than ever before.
RIP Peter Yarrow

United we stand
Perhaps you will hear the lyric and live the words Divided we fall
Selfless and caring people get it
Those not possessing these qualities don't get the message
Unless they listen and learn
Some live in yesterday
Cannot comprehend today and not prepared for tomorrow
My heart hurts for them but there are others like me that care
The Do-gooders who quietly carry on and move forward
So let's sing that Old song
Loud, clear,and strong
Stand with us

Action speaks louder than words
I beg to differ
Ideas start out as words
They work in tandem
For every old and new cliche
Words have been my friends my entire life
A great comfort and a redirection
An amazing friend even now
We create and craft with them
They have taken me to heights I never imagined
Yet,The Power of Words
Eternally grateful of time and understanding
An overly sensitive and sometimes creative me
With the Power of Words

A better year
A better you
Finding the love of your life
Making a life with that person
Celebrating you
Still want to dance at your wedding
C-Span brought us together
Friends ever since
For you
Simply the Very Best

Plain JANE
Her mother said
Even when they laid her mother to rest those words echoed
He sees her differently
He loves her
Her mother hated him
That line still stings and hurts
I see a creative writer still trying to say it right
Happily married woman and devoted friend
Adores nature, traveling, museums, and Art
Happy that others read and enjoy her work
Yes she is who she is
Sorry her mother saw her differently

A Memoir
Five years of research
Going into Edit
This year it will be published and I am nervous
Poetry has always been my friend and companion
Always will be
First for me
Root for me
Will update you all

You said what you felt
Never taking into account the pain you caused
Hurting me is par for the course
Hurting someone else is intolerable
So the door is open
The phone won't ring
Text messages and Facebook will stop
Say what you will but you have no edit button
Frankly, my life matters not only yours \
Always about you
It is all about you as usual
So we are On Hold
Time is said to heal most wounds
Not sure this time

If there were more hours in the day
Other ways to show you what you already know
In the quiet of the morning
In the still of the night
Perhaps Afternoon Delight?
Hands held in silence that speak louder than any words ever could.
If there is a better love then we have it
As our wedding song states to save every day til eternity passes away just to spend them with you

Drawn to Pooh, Paddington, and the Care Bears.
They adorn my home office and are my heart.
Working virtually somedays,they keep me company
Looking at them makes me comfortable
Kindness, goodness and sensitivity define me
Those that take advantage or try have been in my tears and hurt my heart
Villains and the vicious are forewarned to get out of my way
I am the Human Care Bear
If that troubles you than take leave now
Forever more, even better

Have friends but few
Well chosen
Some unexpected
Writing has always been my best friend along with my spouse
Most of my walks are alone
Soul walks
Clears my senses and I do write in my head while walking
Watching nature and dogs being walked makes me happy
Pet some dogs then on my way
More enjoyable that noisy complaints or nonsense
Learned to listen acutely and speak when necessary
There is good noise and bad
Rooting for the good
Loner but not lonely

Your way or the highway
You’re a one-way street
It is always about you
Your narcissistic tendencies just need to send them packing
Cried the last tear
No more sleepless nights
You call others selfish but truth be told it is you that is
Call me sensitive or whatever you like
For now, Don’t call
Stay clear
Enough is enough
Not slamming the door shut
Just keeping my distance
Time may not heal this wound
Not another moment until you learn it’s not always about you

Need to visit Alaska
Visit you and see you soaring so high
Wish I could fly with you and view the world from your perspective
Flying High
Soaring splendidly
Hope to visit you
Until then go flying high and know I am watching with glory

No matter where or when

The good girl or boy will stop me to be petted ot to say Hello
Skippy is saying Hi from the Rainbow bridge
Anybody hurting or abusing them is the worst act
The consequences are dealt with by the charities that we support
So when paws pass you by or if you are lucky enough to call them family
Remember how dear they are
You are lucky enough to call them family or support them as we do

An old friend said writing it down won't do
He was unclear that writing is my art and my lifelong friend
Every essence,nuance,color  travel is captured in my mind
Then it is crafted and when I feel it works then it becones a poem
So Dear Danny ,who left us long ago
I do write.it down because I am a writer

Truth be told
Lies and stories getting old
This is for life
Gold ring is a circle
Nothing more or less
Lover,life partner,best friend on a lifetime ride
When it is easy, great time to embrace the heart
When it is hard, cry and hold on like you never knew possible
Letting go is easy but hanging on and tough is the ultimate
The answer
The Other Side
Do your best to get there
In the meantime enjoy the ride
Take it all
Deep inside
The Other Side

Nunley's painted beautiful ponies
Trying to catch that brass ring
All the colors and reigns
***** music and the beauty of simplicity
So grand in the eyes of a child
The adult still loves carousel horses
The Nunley's Carousel resides in a museum on Long Island
The amazing Billy Joel saved it and had  it restored so adults that were children and remember can ride it again as he did
The carousel

We are polar opposites
Sharing alot of DNA
I have my own kind of music
Sing my special loved songs
Dance to your music and tunes
Enjoy everything
Time for me to dance to mine without the control you impose
5678

Don”t dial in your life
Unless that works for you
I have doubts about that
You wonder how or why
Say goodbye to what was
You may not want to let
go of yesterday but you won’t get to today
or tomorrow unless you remember
Move forward
Learn from it
Move on
Accept what is but remember regrets keep you in the past
Hopes and dreams along with actions move you forward
You have to find
Whatever it is and cultivate your power towards whatever you want to achieve
Big or small
Grand or run of the mill
They are yours
Make your resolution happen
The best truly is waiting
Can you go for it?
Resolutions

A Hail and Hearty Farewell
Watching warm-ups and walking to the paddock
Horses and many colors
He spent forty years here
A bee stung him while watching a race outside
The tote board holds amazing moments and memories
He was a Harness owner and spectator
Four Starz Lights won the Jersey Sire Stakes
He won third leg and tne final race
Freehold Raceway has History and Soul
Sad to see that Nostalgic look on so many faces
So many enjoyed being part of the Afternoon Delight
Saying Goodbye to an old friend is not easy
Thanks to all of you
that played a part here
Farewell Freehold Raceway
Here's to you and the Last Race

Maddy
C@rainbowchaser2025

The Ultimate Joy
The best of everything especially health
Know Kindness and live it
Listen attentively
These gifts can't be wrapped but my wish is that they  open for you every single moment of your life including those you love

Don't care how many you wanted
Don't care how many you've had
Nobody can love me like he can
He's my one and only.
Blue eyed wonder standing so tall
He's my love, life partner ,and best friend
It never ends
Goes on like a flowing river
So sassy
So irreverent
So original
He is sarcasm personified
My One and Only
Pure joy and nothing phony
It gets so much better like an original lyric
A new way to celebrate or express the ultimate
The voice you want to hear when you are
Lonely
My one and only
The one and only
He let me write on blank pages until they became poems
Unconditional love and respect
The Only Love of my Life
My One and Only

Is any one willing to setup zoom meeting for first Sunday in January after 5pm?
Let Carlo ,me, or Ben  me know asap.
Podcast won't work but monthly or bimonthly zoom will.
This person or persons can host it
A group of us can choose poems or topics to discuss
Please let us know
I am editing my first novel so my time is limited but still want to be involved.

Thanks ad Happy Holidays