(2015)
How can he write of sunny, joyful… When sadness weighs heavily on his… How can he think of uplifting rhym… When they’re several thousand mile… His words are flat; and his lines…
A Sonnet The red sun sank behind the wester… Painting the sky in psychedelic hu… Crimson, tangerine, even midnight… As nightfall cloaks the earth with…
First two days, stressful; but tou… Funnel clouds formed, though few t… But warnings rang in frightening f… Off to a shelter each time the ala… Thunder claps boomed, lightning bo…
A Halloween Tale He caught a glimpse of the monster A lethal wraith-like dementor As he passed the hallway mirror He shuddered in speechless horror
O’er the eons rain fell mostly in… And a great blue lake was heretofo… But the surrounding peaks hungered… Now they’re treeless, barren and f… Yet cast against lake and sky in s…
Her steel grey eyes match the lead… And belie the raging flames deep w… The marble coldness of her unblink… Masks subdued emotions; that any t… She’s lived through pain and utter…
Mornings I wake up fresh as an ei… Then I try to move and realize th… For all my joints hurt and I shiv… Craving a cup of java steaming hot… I’m old and the cells in my body t…
Dark clouds weighed down on his S… Rough weather appears to be in sto… The prospects of bright tomorrows… And in the twilight of his life th… Life is so bleak; there is no suns…
Double Sonnets The mercury dropped precipitously Greater than twenty degrees Fahre… When the weather front traversed t… Lightning thunder rolled with fury…
The first I remember reading Was a large geography book; But it was the first section Of the book that got me hook’d! Those first hundred pages or so,
Prelude They have met even before they wer… Far away in the spiral galaxies A remote corner of the cosmic cair… But born on earth, different centu…
The distant hills shimmer in the h… Ruthlessly, the sun shines to burn… The heat suffocates, without and w… Making shapes fuzzy in the blist’r… Sweat beads trickle down his red s…
The heat’s oppressive even in the… Bright wavy lines arise from the p… Looks like sparks will ignite any… Tinder dry woods could be in ruins… Out in the open field, our nerves…
i’m out of things to write about;… a sense of uselessness, like when… a long time ago, when i felt just… of little or no consequence; all a… filled with people, talking, but n…
Just for Laughs... She lay in bed few moments aftergl… Not mindful of a strange bedfellow Not itsy-bitsy tiny Definitely not shiny