Dragonfly Tears

"Isabella’s thrill with accomplishment and her abilities in serving others is as great as her difficulties in dealing with frustration and disappointment. In the world of an eight-year-old and in a moment of tears, she captures light on the use of rest, mindfulness, space and recreation to bring refreshment; reinvigorating her stores of energy and sense of personal identity" ...

Not a Toadstool

“What am I?”
I’m not a ‘toad stool’

And who are you!
I’d send you to the zoo

"The Sea" Gull

A shiny gull

On one grey day

Hanging on the air

Deep red beak

Matching legs

Eyes that stop and stare

An Autumn Leaf

I am an autumn leaf
Bruised like a pair

From my tree, I hang
Brown and cracked and bare

Terry and Peanut Butter

Six in a box
Now remain few
—Counting hens who

All are but gone
Buried, for rescue—
Leaving just two!

Snowflake

First came Twinkle
Bunny boy Lynch
Without equal
The strongest pinch!

A rabbit who
—True black and white
And rain-soaked too—
Was not polite!

Restless Wanderer

The She Oak will not take me by the hand
Nor the Poa waltz with me
The wind will not whisper in this sand
Nor the gulls stay beside the sea

Princess Rajah

Appearing on a wall

Beneath a rhododendron

Catching my eye

With a gaze of reflection 

Timba Snowmow Towns

Timba Towns

Just as it sounds

Proud as Simba

Our dog Timba

One of our family

A true Towns simile

Is Timba Snowmow Towns

Cannot Last

Ground down
Poured out
Fine powder
Blown about