By Frances Leitch The sea’s facea candle of dawnflickering in the sunlightAs strollers trek the shoreWheel in the sunLight uponstarfish and sand dollarsSpy porpoises darting in and out of the waveschasing the wind downLook to the skypelicans flySailing lightcaught the sunMerry Rovers Stroll on Growing up and living by the sea, Frances has spun poems … Continue reading Sea Stroll
Blooming Lights
By Frances Leitch The earth smiles with the rise of the sun, a light feeling growing over hill and valley and ocean blue. Blue skies overhead, flowers sprouting, plant grow, and leaves of trees drinking in the sun’s rays of renewal, a new day. Fire Light The morning’s flaming tailwhisks the night awayAs copper caverns … Continue reading Blooming Lights
Sun Crossing
By Frances Leitch SUN SONG In the Sun Songthe swallows flytwo abreastCutting across the skyThe bubbling brookdances on mossy rocksPlaying endlesslythe tune of laughterBuck and doeCross green grassin the meadowAnd butterfliesSpread their wings to the sunWarm themselvesand then are goneSun Song Summertime So light and fullBillowy white cloudsRoam across The sky of blueUpturned faces of … Continue reading Sun Crossing
Sand Stroll
By Frances Leitch In strolling and viewing its person, one reflects upon a sunshine land of many faces – and changing faces. The desert’s land has a voice of challenge, wonder, and beauty. Sand Stroll Quiet it be Strolling the land of shifting sand But for the chirp of a cactus wren winging to needles … Continue reading Sand Stroll
Morning Light
By Frances Leitch Morning Light It flows across the sky and dances on pine needles and coats meadows in light and brings a smile to flowers budding in their time of morning light. And with it comes the gift of birth, and sunshine mirth. Morning Sunlight In the chilly morn When sun rises up to … Continue reading Morning Light
Sunshine Journey
By Frances Leitch Desert Land The land of waterless sea Stretching endlessly The land of tawny sand The land of bald mountains The land of skies of wine The land of thirst That fills the soul with silence Summer Breeze A warm summer breeze Swept across the wide open plain of the land untame Dusted … Continue reading Sunshine Journey
Anchor and Other Poems
By Frances Leitch Anchor No one did talk to me while I sunned by the sea No one did wave a hand or sing a song But all the while the waves rolled on The heart of the sea breaking endlessly upon the shore A sunny smile anchored to me Sea Legs When glancing back … Continue reading Anchor and Other Poems
Academy of the Heart And Mind 