Then Follow Through

I invite you
to think about
what you could do
with or without
to show you care
for someone where
you’d thought to not

(C) Stephen W. Buchanan 2020

Originally published advertising free at “If You Haven’t Got A Sonnet”

Fireflies Flicker

When the fireflies
flicker off/on
lighting night skies
with visual song
I think of you
No longer blue
I smile awhile

(C) Stephen W. Buchanan 2016

Originally published advertising free at “If You Haven’t Got A Sonnet”

Kate’s wonderful poem “once upon a summer gloaming” on her site “anotherkatewilson” and the comment thread unintentionally started by Eugenia made me remember this ha’sonnet.

You shouldn’t be 
someone you're not
— a fantasy
that other’s plot
For pride thereof
as love is love
be true to you

(C) Stephen W. Buchanan 2020

Originally published advertising free at “If You Haven’t Got A Sonnet”