The moon peeked out behind a cloud at me I do not know why she was so shy Like a child seeing a person for the first time The moon will...

The darkness was not complete A small, distant glimmer of light pierced it But not enough light to illuminate Either a man or an ideal...

Behooves is such a crotchy old word Said by white haired men over their reading glasses Whispered by sliver hair women with their hair in...

Take a moment for beauty! I said to her as she rushed to her car She seemed a bit baffled As I pointed to the sky She looked up and saw...

Arve He glides with wings unseen Watching over those he has known In many years of his life on this earth Why he is gone is mysterious To...

“I didn’t want to remember you that way.” She said but how could she know? She had put me on that plane years ago And not seen me in...

She was sitting in the middle of the grove A traffic cone by her right elbow A strange sight. One that baffled and made me curious. As I...

43 Years, 1 Months, 5 Days and 2 hours & 29 minutes (as inspired by Mark) Why, I ask myself, do I know her so much better? Better in...

3 AM I am awakened by the faint sound of rain I come out of my sleep and sit by the bed The sound invites me to come outside The cool and...

The Great Pickle Consolidation Event Dills, dills, dills Sweets, sweets, sweets Kosher, ahhhh! Koshers So many kinds, so little time...

I hadn’t seen the fish It lived 250 fathoms below At lot more than You or I would ever go It made it own light How’s a fish to know...

(my father on the left) Soon I will turn 70 The age my mother died Not too many years beyond that Is the age my father died When a parent...

The wind is still this evening Calming my mind and my thoughts This morning, the wind howled Thru the breezeway as my thoughts Ran...

Pennies are all over the place A collection of odd pennies Discarded ones You see them here and there You find them collected In the...

Right there Between the slabs of concrete In that gap Nature will not be silenced A few small flowers Yellow and white Stubbornly pop up...

The heart leads us down a crooked road It seems more a muddy path sometimes Twisting and turning Slogging through the moist ground Our...

We walk along the beach Embracing each other Sharing our thoughts, our feelings Sharing each other We may never run to the water Splash...

To see humanity walk Right before us Every day it happens Every day, we don’t see What if we took a moment? To see what is out there To...

He saw it coming from miles away But first he heard it The faint sound of thunder Then a flash of lightning A summer thunderstorm in...

Flummox, he said, use that in a poem If anyone can, you can! What a great word, I said Of course, I can write a poem on that “I sat on...