It’s spring time in Patty’s Worlds, and we’re calling for submissions.
Sponsoring Member Abbie Johnson Taylor answered the call.
Please enjoy her poem below.
Falling in Love With You
©2023 by Abbie Johnson Taylor
After a two-year long-distance relationship,
shocked to discover you wanted more than friendship
and unsure if I wanted the same,
I didn’t rush in.
But after a while, I took your hand, stayed with you.
Like a river flowing to an ocean, we were meant to be together.
All too soon, you left this world,
your river running dry.
But my love is as endless as the tide.
Abbie Johnson Taylor has published three novels, two poetry collections, a memoir, and a collection of short stories. Her work has appeared in The Weekly Avocet, Magnets and Ladders, and other publications.
She is visually impaired and lives in Sheridan, Wyoming, with her robotic cat Joy, where she worked as a registered music therapist with nursing home residents and in other facilities. She also cared for her late husband, who was totally blind and suffered two paralyzing strokes after they were married. This is the subject of her memoir and many of her poems.
Abbie Johnson Taylor
April 5, 2026Thank you, Patty, for publishing my poem here today. Please stay tuned for a Tuesday Treasures reblog. Have a wonderful day, everybody!
Patty Fletcher
April 6, 2026Hi, Abbie. You’re welcome.
That poem always makes me smile and have tears in my eyes at once.
It is lovely, and it is obvious the love you all had for one another.
I’ve a friend who’s husband died some time back. I mean it’s been a few years, and she is still deeply in love with him and says there is never to be another for her.
When I think of the two of you, Bill and you that is, I think of the song, my heart will go on.
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