My Heart Is A Sweet Maui Onion

Artwork by Patricia J. Mosca (www.pjmosca.blogspot.com)

Poem by Royce Addington ©2006

Peel back the fragile layers
And what do we choose to see
Beware and go with caution
For it’s a place you will forever “BE”

There’s no turning back
The essence unfolds…
Pungent and Powerful
Sometimes Painful
Sometimes Bold

Personal Truths may await you
Stark realizations unwittingly keep you bound
Ruthless disappointment may reign within
Hope and Desire
They MUST be found!

Transparent as dragonfly wings
Thick as crimson blood
What is revealed
May be quite clear
Or Quicksand
Or Mud

If all fears were but illusion
The inner critics banished for eternity
Self-sabotage would be non-existent
This freedom is Passion’s key

Without self-doubt or recrimination
Where could our imaginations flow
Possibilities are infinite
The sweet heart of our inner Universe
Always waits to tell us so…


Robert Burns A RED, RED ROSE


O my love is like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June;
My love like the melody
That's sweetly played in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonny lass,
So deep in love am I;
And I will love thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry.
Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun;
I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands o'life shall run.
And fare thee weel, my only love!
And fare thee weel, awhile!
And I will come again, my love
Though it were ten thousand mile.

A KEY WEST WINTER...FAR FAR AWAY

Photograph By T.P. Netting and L.E. Todhunter

A KEY WEST WINTER...
FAR FAR AWAY...
PARADISE FOUND...
Tropical mangroves are alive with rare butterflies
The sea full of shimmering iridescent shells
An indigo sky turns a molten gold at sunset
An enchanted land
Far Far Away
Where magic and muses dwell...
--Royce Addington--