An infant crawls into a toddler

                  The toddler tumbles into a boy

                       The boy lurches into a teenager

                             The teenager springs into a man

                                  The man advances into a daddy

                                       The daddy slides into a grandpa

                                            The grandpa drifts into an angel

 ©2015 by Rose Marie Boyd

Trying to pedal backwards gets you nowhere.

© 2015 by Rose Marie Boyd

Despite the defensiveness a man hides behind, his faults and secrets are eventually revealed.

The wall between them
fails to keep the ugly truth
from being exposed.

©  2015 Haiku by Rose Marie Boyd

Humph! He acted as if we've never met before.

Mr. Moon

He was playing coy with me again tonight. 

Flitting in and out between the clouds,

he wasn’t man enough to face me straight on.

© 2015 Photo & Poem by Rose Marie Boyd

Preconceived notions impact the way we see ourselves and the things around us.

©  2015 Haiku by Rose Marie Boyd

It seems unfair that one little thing can burst someone's bubble and bring them down.

©2015 by Rose Marie Boyd

My son Justin has a dominant personality. He’s very successful in convincing others that doing things his way is the less painful way to go.

(Photo taken at Medieval Times, NJ)

SUCH ROYAL MAJESTY

Be it beast or man,

Friend or foe, all bow their heads
and bend to his will.

© 2015 by Rose Marie Boyd

Ever have something in the air trigger a sense of doom or a sensual memory?

©  2015 Haiku by Rose Marie Boyd

Photo:  https://manseryberman.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/aroma-purpura_800.jpg

Ever go to the funeral of a good friend or dear relative and regret never telling them how much they really meant to you?

Love and affection:
best conveyed to the living

’fore death thwarts the chance.

© 2015 by Rose Marie Boyd

Desperate solutions can turn bad situations into catastrophic disasters.

With prospects dimming,

a bright idea surfaces

to blaze a worse course.

© 2015 Photo & Haiku by Rose Marie Boyd