Thank you SKyD Photography ( Sean Dudley ) For This Beautiful Photo and the Inspiration

Summer Rose

Summer sun shimmers
as late afternoon's red hue
casts a beautiful haze
over all I see
and remnants of a beautiful Rose
dictates my view
it's petals scattered
upon the Earth
I remember still
when she bloomed
with a beauty that haunted
my Heart and I was afraid to cut her stem
in fear of losing a friend
Yet Summer comes
with golden sun and stinging heat
with a price so difficult to comprehend
Only my tear remains
as a gorgeous petal
lays still on my palm
yet I will preserve its wonder
that I may evoke
he splendor
that melted my soul.

©Dana Price

Summer 2013

Remembering The Dance

I guess somehow I had forgotten
That this day would inevitably come
I suppose somewhere in my heart
I didn't think, or I hoped, these things would never be over, done
The first day you were so scared but
A little excited too
So off to school you went that first day
Yes, some tears fell as I watched you
Then came the stories of the day
The blooming flower, the bee there too
The falling leaves around your feet
The sky a little more blue
I didn't notice as they rushed past
How fast the years were going by
Hours of homework, what's three times two
How did the sun move
And the moon too
Which great person in history
Did what and oh gosh when
What word is that and what does it mean
Oh to have those days back again
How do you spell that word
I want to eat a snack
Those were some of your favorite words
As I sit here alone and look back
All of a sudden I was going to
Track meets and Drama plays you were in
Excelling at everything you have done
I see now, no one would have guessed
That shy little boy
Is in this life to win
Now, today, as I sit here alone
Looking back at all the memories
That are pressed between the pages of my mind and heart
Feeling a bitter sweet kind of joy
One I have never known
And now the wetness, falling from my eyes
Falling harder as I remember everything now
So now that you have turned the page
To a new chapter in your book of life
Walk on my precious one
In peace, happiness, with a smile on your face and in your heart
I know I must let you go now, just a little bit
To close this chapter, move to the next with all its chance
And as a wise man once said
I guess I could have missed this bittersweet pain but
I would have had to, with you, missed this part of life's dance.

I love you Dylan and I am so very proud of the young man you have become.

As you graduate high school now, may you continue to walk with and trust God in everything you do in life....We Did It!

Love Always,

Nonnie

May 2013

© Dana E Price

Again Free

Looking up she can see
The beauty of Heaven's star's, everyone
It is as if they feel in her
The despair she wants to be done
She gazes up, says another prayer
So often is her plea
Take all of this as far as the stars
Take all of it as far as the sea
She looks again to the stars above
She prays soon for it to be
The inner turmoil to be gone
Then she can smile, remove the mask and
Once again feel
Free.....

© Dana Price

A Look Back To Now

Looking back over yesteryear
I often wonder why
Thoughts of happiness
Bring tears stinging hard
Is it the innocence of those times?
The fields that were so green
Running, playing, laughing
That are no more that sadden
Today let's run once more
Laugh at silly things
Make our own memories again
Today in fields still green...

©Dana E Price

Feb. 15th, 2013

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Many Words, Oh Silence

Words are hanging there in space
Finding neither time nor place
For resting
People talk continually
About who they are
What they see
Never even letting there be
Quiet
Need some place where there's a friend
Whose conversation, has an end
Who knows the comforting sound
Of Silence.....

© Dana Price

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And So Again

Seems you wretched thing have come to stay.
That pattern on the wall has become almost a friend, company.
Or is it the reminder that this thing is my biggest nemesis?
How long must we have this battle?
You only show yourself when darkness falls.
I don't fear you, I loathe and detest you and yet,
are you born from my own uneasy, clogged grey matter?
Must we have this very same conflict, same time every night?
You seem to know when I am weakest, it is then you gain your strength....
I've grown weary from the fight and yet I have to keep up the battle.
You cannot win!
To allow that, to be defeated by you would surely mean insanity!
My strength in the day light hours, you have kept drained...
Yet I go on, I think you will lose tonight, you have to
I am so exhausted that there's no way you will come again when darkness falls....
Oh how wrong I am once more!!
Now, in the wee hours I sit, planning for our battle yet again...
In just a few hours I'm sure we will meet again...
I will wage war against you yet again...
Hold onto sanity until...
One day when the day breaks, maybe I will hold my arms high in victory...
One day when maybe, I win this war between us....
One time, when darkness falls, you will finally lose!!
It is then I will comfortably, quietly whisper as I drift easily to sleep....
I have won this night over you...
Insomnia!!!

©Dana Price

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My Eyes Beheld

I walked alone outside today
Middle of Winter's harsh freeze
I sighed sadly, another Cold Dreary day
Wait, what is this I see

A breathtaking sight overtook my sadness
I couldn't believe my eyes
A beautiful blooming rose
And it was right there in my own yard
A smile within my Heart, overtook my sighs

It almost seemed triumphant
In the Winter's hard cold
Turning its face upward
So confident and bold

It seemed to be trying to tell me
To smile, there is Hope still
Yes my own smile replaced my sadness
Its own life, so full of will

I just stood there in awe of its beauty
Yes, in Winter's cold it could dwell
I felt Hope and Belief in that instant
In that beautiful Bloom, that my eyes beheld.

©Dana Price

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