nectar nuggets

quick bites designed to entice

31 March 2026

Your Smile / Beautiful, You, and Me

"Is it a revelation, a reflection, a soul impression—or beauty incarnate?"
30 March 2026

Three Candles / Help Me Light the Wick

"I have three beautiful candles but only one candle stand is worthy of any one of these."
30 March 2026

Space / Astronaut Means Star Sailor

"Come visit through sunlight or storm. Your beauty will always shine through any clouds life brings."
30 March 2026

Age / Till I Love You and Love Me

"How old do I have to get to appreciate you?"
28 March 2026

Unlocked / The Inner Dawn

"A muse of intrigue and awakening."
27 March 2026

An Evening Out / Lived in Reality Not a Poem

"Sometimes, a story matters. It affects my life. I'm imaginatively implicated."
24 March 2026

If / Your Home Is My Heart

"If anything ever happens to you, this heart, all I have, will be your home."
24 March 2026

The Third Drawer / Do I Need to Know

"A lab bench from my Father, top flipped to hide the experimental scars."
23 March 2026

I Have No Clue / A Gift of Future Poetry

"Instead of listening to news of world destruction, how about a walk—sun on skin, maybe a run, sweat dripping."
18 March 2026

Gentle Gravity / How Gently You Pull Me

"The mystery of you remains unexplained, even to yourself."
16 March 2026

I Curve Toward You / The Loveliest Distance Between Two Points

"Arching like a willow in the breeze toward someone—holding a hand across the table in a quiet room, remembering your laugh before you speak."
15 March 2026

My Broken Fingernails (Still Sharpen the Pencil)

"The goal remains just out of fingertip's reach."
13 March 2026

Uncomposed / Almost Poems

"The words inside me, almost poems—love meant quietly for you—the Muse I met."
09 March 2026

Maybe— You / Two Travelers Still

"Two travelers on different roads, meeting in the same quiet moment, lives fully lived—closets full of memories."
09 March 2026

WooHoo! / Eighty-Four and Still in the Game

"Sixty years of bills and fights, of raising kids and sleepless nights, of holding hands through joy and pain—then winking at each other again."
06 March 2026

Judgments Wound / Arrows Sheathed

"Judgment loosed with force meant to penetrate both body and belief with self-righteous aim."
04 March 2026

Ha! for Her / A Mother's Laugh Remembered

"My laugh is everything—nervous, defiant, playful, existential, self-mocking. Every thought in a chaotic instant of appreciation."
02 March 2026

Poetry @ 3:12 AM / Flame or Contagion Is My Coffee

"Something you write, spend countless hours revising, till it is perfect. Then you read it two weeks later and it makes no sense."
02 March 2026

Shout! / Just an Extension of My Imagination

"When love hurts so much, Martha reminds me of you. Such gentle perspective."
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The "Nectar Nuggets" page features maxims of David's poems. The maxims are organized in batches from David's most recent poems at the front to his earliest submissions at the back. You can use the page number and date buttons below the boxed content to navigate. Recommended for use when browsing. You can also locate maxims for David's poems by visiting the Poetry Blog, selecting a poem and clicking on the "Maxims" tab. Recommended for use when reviewing specific poems.