by Dolly A Berthelot © 2020This most dismalChristmas week 2020– Covid soars,Multitudes dieIsolation chafesFamilies stay apartTo save livesWhile some partyWithout masks,Without care. Nature rebelsAs the wiseHave long foretold.Hurricanes,Snowstorms,Wildfires,What’s next? America is cyber-attackedSecurity is sabotagedPutin chuckles,Our allies shiver.The President is silentThen contradicts his experts.Democracy seems under siege. And yet, and yet,In my unruly old basket of…
by Tabitha Edwards-Walton, nurse, poet, and author of Poetic Diversities and Poetic Life Experiences. He left his life of nothing behind him, when he walked into the military recruiting office. He was only seventeen years old. He walked away from his family. It was his decision. He went into boot camp, then he went to active…
Tabitha Edwards-Walton: nurse, mother, grandmother and poet with two books: Poetic Life Experiences and Poetic Diversities and a new book coming in 2017! I sat nervously in the doctor’s office, anxious and full of dreaded fear. When the doctor came in and said, “I really do not know how to tell you this. That lump that…
by Tabitha Edwards-Walton, nurse, poet, and author of Poetic Diversities and Poetic Life Experiences Son, please put your hand in mine. I shall be your strength. Trust in me and you will do just fine. I will be your balance. I will hold you up when you go to fall. Just like everything in life,…
by Tabitha Edwards-Walton, nurse, mother of a special needs child, poet and author of Poetic Life Experiences and Poetic Diversities For the men and women who wear the uniform of the law. You each have taken the oath to protect and serve. Every day you put your own life on the line, to keep ours safe. Sometimes you…
by Tabitha Edwards-Walton, author of Poetic Life Experiences and Poetic Diversities Note: This is a new poem from Tabitha, not found in her two previous books. Mom, I hope by now you understand, That it’s Okay, I am in the Promised Land. He told me that one day I would Fly Away. My father said, “I am…
