Like a river flows

Image: Wikideas1, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons: Mississippi River

Like a river flows

I have tried not to stop

or spin like an eddy

For your kind

Image: Author

 

Hello, how are you?

I don't know your name

How'd you get here?

A surprise, for me.

Catitude

Image: Author

Everything is for the cat's convenience. 

 

Fetch the cat bowl

fetch the food

the cat waits

with catitude

Georgia Douglas Johnson

Georgia Douglas Johnson (September 10, 1880 – May 15, 1966), was a poet and playwright. She was one of the earliest female African-American playwrights, and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance. More...

The boatman

Charles Napier Hemy

 

Life is a continuum of correction and flow:

The boatman

strikes his pole

into the muddy bottom 

 

Ernest Neal

Ernest Neal (1858–1943), was an American poet and educator. He was the 2nd Poet Laureate of Georgia. He lived in Dahlonega for some time, but Calhoun, Georgia was his home. More...