When life's storms outweigh hope and grace, repose On black onyx sky cameo clouds billow Heaven's broken souls water saphires outflow In all Mothers hearts a garnet lantern glows Washed ashore pearls of chance from the tide flows On seagulls wings we touch silvery rainbows Promise of Spring where birds of paradise grow Her eyes of angelic lavender-blue rose Mother the moonflower opens in the nightglow

^+^Heaven is my compass^+^

Cottony kittens serenade skies Dabbled canvas Dada's diamond eyes Bruised grape cloudlets kissed Mama blind Leis of peach roses baby's breath remind Grandma's rose of sharon memoirs I'll miss Butterfly mariposa mallow bliss Vivid blue sage a poet born mute Time's single tulip stars salute Wars frosted Winter wings elope Baby Angels grapple crying to cope Suicidal storms sojourn as snow Sleet hearts glaze melted hearts praise and glow Marmalade evenfall high embellish Bring our troops out of t...