“FRESH” New Food Harvest Traceability Poetry by Rochelle Carr

FRESH
The vine speaks
The time is now
The color shouts
Ripe.
Leather boots
Know their way
Down the path
Sun-break.
Rich soil
Morning harvest
Knowing heart
Long day.
Hand picked
Smooth food
Tractor sleeps
Sort.
Labels on
Time to ship
Trust your brand
Farm to fork.
SO sweet
Eat well.
Flavor shouts
Divine.

“Principessa” New Poetry and painting for daughters by Rochelle Carr

Here I sit in Florence, Italy thinking about my daughters. They are beautiful young women and I love and adore them so. We put up with each others bad behaviors and are so close close close…..a feeling of closeness I cannot articulate with words – only with the pureness that my heart speaks. To all [...]

“OLD DOOR” New Poetry by Rochelle Carr

I am here traveling in Rome, Italy experiencing a mecca of old doors. It is my second year without my children living at home. I have a blended family and still manage the time to mother five incredible children. I am free of shoulds. I am free of schedules I do not create on the [...]

“Kayak Man” New Poetry by Rochelle Carr

KAYAK MAN
She watched him kayak
In her mind.
His boat glides up on shore
He is somewhere
In his own heaven
Exploring deep blue seas.
Always near an island
With sunshine gracing his face.
Salt and pepper
Graying beard
And white ear hairs
Curl and dance
In appropriate face places.
She watched him kayak
In her mind.
Walking softly
Amongst cracked shells someone
Might have stomped with feet
Years earlier.
Island mermaids still slept
sweetly [...]

“What Would Love Do?” Painting by Rochelle Carr

A novel, first published in 1896, and titled In His Steps was subtitled “What Would Jesus Do?”.  The publishing of this book and an increasing popularity of the concept caused a grassroots phenomena to spread through the United States in the 1990s.  Merchandise was made and sold bearing the famous slogan which was originally aimed [...]