JUANITA GARCIA VERA

JUANITA GARCIA VERA

DAY BREAK

Day breaks with its brilliant light

To rthymic movement of people waking

Their sound

Like chattering, chirping birds

Some singing, some squabbling

Some nesting, some flying

But all bustling

The hissing sound of a  braking   bus,

Like a winding snake in rooms of squalor

Freight trains on star studded   journeys

Pulling into sight

Travelers coming and going

To visionary dreams

Church bells ringing

Summon all

To gather and rejoice

In the day that’s come

Let us kneel in gratitude

Let us pray in thankful song

Come one , come  all

To rejoice in this moment

That breathes of Life

© Juanita Garcia Vera

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THE INSANITY OF LIFE

I question my sanity

At times laughing to myself

About some long forgotten joke

While at times, sit quietly in melancholy streams

As I cry over a situation I can never change

Thinking was it God’s will

That came to pass

Thinking maybe the hand of fate

 Had to take its share in this charade

A million questions

Without answers

Yet, I tinker in a mass

Of thoughts intertwined

Like cobwebs in my mind

 I tangle and untangle

The threads that bind

My delusional thoughts

I am lost

There is no way out

Of this abyss of not knowing

And wondering what is here

Is this reality?

Maybe I am a thought in

Someone’s world

Invisible without voice or power

Looking in the mirror

I no longer recognize the face

That stares back

I am a lowly being

A speck of dust

That blows in the winds of time

A nuisance in someone’s face

And eyes but necessary for life to take hold

I wonder who looks on

 As I make my way in life and to the great beyond

I wonder if HE smiles at what is happening

Or is HE disheartened at what HE sees

I close my eyes and try to sleep

While thoughts give birth to other thoughts

Spewing into colorful dreams

Dreams so beautiful for my mind to contemplate

Tomorrow, maybe, I’ll be a butterfly

© Juanita Garcia Vera

Photograph  Cloudy Moonlight…Juanita Garcia Vera

All Rights reserved  “Dreams” 2014

THE FOG

The clouds are dark and heavy

They pour to calm the storm

They fall inciting memories

Of moments long ago

My vision grows so cloudy

To rain a little more

The storm is sweeping slowly

My thoughts to darkest fog

My window draped in sorrow

I think of you once more

I close my eyes to see you

And dream of you once more

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JUANITA GARCIA VERA

JUANITA GARCIA VERA was born in Driscoll, Texas a small farming community in South Texas. In 1960 her mother died leaving an eleven year old Juanita to help raise five siblings. It was during those formative years that ignited a need to care for the sick.  One summer proved pivotal when all her siblings became ill with the Chicken Pox and Measles.  Her younger brother also contracted Meningitis. He was hospitalized for three months and almost lost his life.  It was during this difficult time that she decided to become a nurse. After graduating from high school, she went to nursing school where she received a License for Vocational Nursing. While working full time, she raised four children and earned a Registered Nursing Degree. She has worked in several hospitals in Houston, Texas and is now retired. She has been a nurse for over forty years. Nursing is a calling she holds dear to her heart.  Her passion is writing. She began writing as a child but, after the murder of her son Abel, her writing style is grounded on spiritual awareness and faith.  She credits, her husband and children for saving her life.  Thank you God for the opportunity of  Being. Life Philosophy:  Each moment is a precious and fleeting treasure, Life is beautiful when  we open our Hearts to all the beauty God created for the World- JGV. Lives in Texas USA.  Language Spanish. Mexican American