Carla Michelle Ballard

High Point, NC, USA

Carla Michelle Ballard resides in High Point, North Carolina. She is an artist for the furniture design industry for over 20 years. She enjoys: working out at Fitness Today, church and her pets, Harry Houdini (a rabbit) and Scully Bouquet Beaujolais (a cat). She is a Distinguished Member of The International Society of Poets, has been elected into The International Poetry Hall of Fame and recently won The National Library of Poetry's Editor's Choice Award.

Dream

To some a dream is waking
to a better tomorrow.
To others its to make it
through the day.

As children we were taught
to have a dream,
To reach for a star
and hold on to it.

But as the years go by
our dreams become,
Like a broken toy or a
forgotten idea.

As we grow older
our dreams,
Go from the extraordinary
to just ordinary.

No room for a dream now,
only work.
To some a dream is just,
to make it through this day.

Peace

The word alone
Says so much
It is sweet
To speak,
And soothing
To the soul.
It invokes a quietness
Like a tomb.
To be able
To think without
Demands.
No interruptions,
No warring fractions,
Within or without.
To be happy with
Oneself,
And others.
To be truly at peace
What a wondrous feeling
That must be.