Love is like
a yard.

It takes work with
a red rusty wheelbarrow,
clippers, and a new rake
to keep it beautiful.

It is the root of
all happiness.

The
flowering
greenery.

 

 

 

Danny P. Barbare resides in the Upstate of the Carolina’s.  His poetry has recently appeared in The San Diego Poetry Journal, Assisi Online Journal, The Round, and Stray Branch.  He has been writing poetry off and on for 32 years and has been published over 500 times.  He works as a custodian at a local YMCA.