http://slow.writerscafe.org/ahigley The original writings of author Annette Pisano-Higley en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1775947787 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 All the years joined, you and I together, And now I miss the colors you brought, The tones, the textures, the warmth, The bright light of your smile,The soaring song of you.The chiaroscuro of nuances felt.In crinkling of eyes, in shared smiles And simultaneous thoughts... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/3131197/ http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/3129842/ My butterfly, my pure soul, my child,You fly to take your own journey todayOn wings of angels.So brave, so beautiful,Little Warrior,Sunshine blond shining brightFearless little clownRascal, Loyal protector, unafraidLovingWait for me We will be together againUntil then I will carry you, And.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2962829/ I am hardly livingIn a place of hard people and ‘God-forsooks’Loud voices and big-teeth peopleA gold mine of hardened heartsHungry for a payoffSaving crumbs from tablesThe young toting gunsAnd driving distracted.Grifting…How’s Mama holdin’ up they sayBuy trinkets and t.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2962663/ Life …Crown of thornsBed of rosesBlood runsTears escapeHeart beats in painAnd ecstasyInscrutableIncomprehensibleBlindingly beautifulNightmareOr merely a fleeting dreamTo learnTo be interpretedA dandelion wisp, after all… http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2962570/ When the clouds threaten you… http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2946163/ Dearest God, please,Send Your sun to bless usSend Your rain and salt water to cleanse usSend Your soft breeze and wave sounds to calm usSend Your animals to love usSend Your trees to purify our airSend Your energy to sustain usSend Your hands to lift usSend Your mighty arms to give u.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2945873/ God Bless My Brother. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2945347/ My brother Frank Pisano passed away today. He suffered. Please say a prayer for his eternal rest. Blessed Mother through your Son Jesus, God the Father & Holy Spirit, pleaseBless my brother’s heart http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2942527/ In Memoriam….from accounts I’ve read. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2942266/ A Loving, Blessed, Tender Easter Wished🐰🐣🙏 http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2941600/ What God has given us, we pass forward.Tree branches tip-tap windows,"Raise your blinds and see." they implore,Walk out into it.Life awaits, to teach you more than you can imagine."We go on, we go on." they say."Man is dissonance, is danger, but we are truth, and we go on." The wild w.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2941074/ Behind the bravado,A popinjay,An Emperor, naked,Of papier mache,Spewing lies without legs,Spawning offal so wild,Is there none who can see,With the eyes of a child?Or can stand in the wayOf his Faustian pact?This foul debt to be paid,By the skin on our backs,While his minions sur.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2938893/ In the greening of a day,In the sunlight of an hour,My cares evaporate,Like raindrops in a shower.A dragonfly embarks,Leaf to leaf alights,No darkness can exist,In midst of these delights.In the greening of a day,In life as it renews,Man’s folly dissipates,With peace, my .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2937483/ The air does not care who I amIt just touches meThe sun does not care what I’ve doneIt just warms meThe rain does not judge does not blameIt just freshens meI am what I amI listenI believeAnd they sayI am enough. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2935419/ In my life,I’ve been in this place before.In my ‘once upon a time’, were the…Dead soldiers- uncles who gave lives protecting Freedom,Lynchings, marches, assassinations, Napalm, Agent Orange,Genocides, a dictator’s shoe crashing, a wall separating countries,Twin Towers .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2931918/ Sad today, angry,Disbelief overwhelms.The external impinges,On the internal,And the internal cries out,“How? What? Who?,Not this. Not now. Not here. Not ever.”I, we, must think hard, strategize…Dig deep, support each other,Protect each other, find our way.Pray,.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2928081/ Words come alive on a page, “ A New Year is dawning…”How precious, how luminous is this passage, this new beginning,Where we can not only look, but really see, hear and really listen,Remembering, revering, learning from the past,And holding fast to that which brightens, brings.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2924746/ Happy Holidays❤️🕊️🌎💚 http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2921909/ She glides, with darting, swift lightning-strikes of neon green,Impossibly bright quicksilver flight,Across and through bursting hues of ripe foliage,Foiling the many predators flying above.Atop wise reptilian head,Her third-eye tracks, sensing light and movementOf flapping wings of peril .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2920431/ Make Your Voices For Freedom Heard- Vote! http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2912241/ ..for Hope. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2911377/ Listen closely,Poems arising from NatureWhisper themselves alive,Beneath the consciousnessOf each day, each minute,Insinuating, appearing, sounding, touching,Tickling ears, eyes, noses, caressing skin,“Now”, they say..Begging to be written, kneeling before us,Dressed in all.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2903714/ Morning proffers a poem,As steel gray Mourning Dove alights,Perching on an iron-latticed,Rustic, rusted chair back.With graceful turn of silver neck, she peersAnd warns away the predatory Blue Jays,That threaten her infant eggs.Husband gone to hunt,Fearless Mother Sentinel watches,Po.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2903709/ As some literary classic books are now banned in Florida public schools. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2902419/ Never giving as much as is needed,Or being good as I’m needed to be,Still I stand ‘neath a sunOf a thousand sons, and daughters, So I can but see.His sweet mercy reigns from the heavens,Rains over the cries of all hearts,No big is too big and no small is too smallIn His s.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2895929/ Evening unveils a smokey blue outline, barely perceived,Until eyes detect the slow, mystical and graceful motion,Of this shadow-bird, this seeming illusion.Slim yellow-feathered tassel tapers gracefully,Down a slender, bobbing head like a queen’s crown,Catching glimmers of light in t.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2893051/ At the center of it,In the eye of the storm,Reality is abstract, amorphous,Subject to ghosts and gusts of time,And arbitrary winds.Rain pelts and threatens swollen watersThat rise, overflowing their lost boundaries,Overflowing our own lost boundaries.Clinging to bent branches and rai.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2890370/ I dream, Wrapped in a red and black plaid cocoon,Lulled by soft rain pattering on an old tin roof.Above me, bare beams of weathered pineForm a rough-hewn masterpiece.Through a wavy glass window of time,Iced with white flowered curtains,I watch a misted lake,Its tree-dense shore a wat.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2888586/ Stopping byTo say helloI miss you moreThan you can knowI wait for life To settle downTo give me timeTo scribble downA few brief wordsTo greet my friendsAnd maybe someTo make amendsBut tossed aroundI seem to staySo send these linesTo touch your day.Don’t feel o.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2887032/ Dreams of dust and detritusFight for ascendance in the night.Ascend-dance, thoughts, ballast of a past,Fear, still near, peeking through,Not felled by sentinels,Who stand and band,To keep strong,…, strong,Cognizant, moving along,Yearning, still learning,Who,,,are you..Nat.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2882339/ Wise enough to know, that I do not know,The mysteries, reasons, answers, solutions.I know I am a vessel, only.But, in the being of that one thing, I receive warmth of sun and the prisms of rain,I hear melodies of sea and wind and laughter of children,I take in the miracles all around,I.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2879046/ A Valentine for All Moms… http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2878475/ Three…two…one…the glitter-ball drops,Lighting upturned faces, lifting hearts, With kisses and tears, hopes and fears,It brings with it, that so-needed hope.The good and the bad, and the in-between,The brief and the enduring, intersect,Intersect, like life in its insc.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2873718/ Happy, Healthy, Safe, Loving and Peaceful Holidays are wished to all.🕊️🌟🕯️ http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2871838/ Just knowing that it has not changed,In its essence,One of the few precious things that continues,Though the Who, What, Where, of itAdjusts.It remains a time to pause, breathe, remember,Love, appreciate, thank, Perhaps touch…The old and the new together,The trappings, so familiar, bring .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2869316/ (Orb-weavers are spiders.We all spin our own stories..)Orb-weaver appears, suspended in air,Like my wisps of thought.She of the Araneidae clan,With banded legs like slivers of tortoiseshell,Victorian spinster, spinning, eloquently spinningSilk into gold, weaving words into passages,I.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2868087/ Senryu Homage to E. A. Poe http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2866681/ Homage to multi-cultural witch tales http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2865236/ Administrators: Have been unable to log in for several days. Please help. Thanks! http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2863586/ Sometimes, alone I sit,Failing at words, perception clouded,Bombarded by a war of too much or too little,Too swift or too slow, too brave or too weak,I use precious time to search for knowledge, To reach for tools, to continue on.Sometimes, during times of crisis,I question the purpose of this .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2863512/ Striking blues and greens and pristine whites,A moving portrait, stirring all the senses.Boats briefly add base tones, While kayaks kiss gentle lake waves silently.Rhythmic, lapping water, like lullabies, emanate,Lake sings sonatas. Loons yodel arias. Whispering trees play muffled snares.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2862229/ Native American Lore environmental poem: Chindi=Evil sprit;Wendigo=Evil beast spirit; Great Turtle=Earth http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2860441/ Unlock the rough-hewn pathto my heart,Unlock the winding wayto my soul,Welcome me.Pine and wind whisper me clean,whisper me peaceful.Blurs of hovering hummingbirdsvibrate with joy, with freedom.Lake sings sibilant sonnets of song,life flowing from it in silver laps and ripples... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2858483/ Not a poem but truly a miracle… http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2853117/ Click on photo top left to enlarge, or go to photo tab & it is last photo. Thanks! http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2852768/ Their history before Ellis, now lost in the mists of time,Words came through the generations.Some I know, some I've been told, some I prospect for,Gleaning golden bits from precious records,These stories of two brave women, two Annas.One, Maria Anna, seventeen,A bright flower growing in .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2852660/ Two sidesOf the same coin.BornInto suffering.Blamed.Abused.Humiliated.Disgraced.Damaged.Bleeding needFrom every pore.StarvingFor crumbs of love.BeggingTo belong.CondemnedWithout benefitOf defense.PayingFor the sins of our fathersPittedAgainst each otherFor.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2852510/ Steaming sun rays vaporize dawn’s soft dew,Piercing through trees like shafts of fire, molten gold.Perfume of wet soil and new growth wafts, permeating all.Blades of grass wave, beckon, entice.Traversing this verdant landscape, like king of his domain,A lone white seabird, ibis, stru.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2850817/ Artificial Intelligence… http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/ahigley/2850102/