Books Poems

Church Today

The small church sanctuary was empty. 
Well, not really, that is never exactly true. 
There are always angels, 
playing in the rafters, 
tiptoeing across the piano keys, 
or chasing each other, 
back and forth among the flowers.

Sometimes they go...Read More

A Glass of Wine

In a box, 
a cake is hidden. 
I opened it slowly, 
and looked inside. 
All I found…
was a bag, 
and dust. 

Add this, mix that, 
be hopeful and hurry. 
The mistake, 
was in the flurry. 

Whipped topping,
everywhere,...Read More

White Angels, Glowing Lamps

When the wind blows, 
down from the great north, 
it brings a mighty frost. 
Do not be afraid. 
Just because something, 
makes you tremble, 
does not give it the right…
to win. 

Stand tall, all who guard the...Read More

Older Than I Remember

Things have not gone, 
the way that you believe they should. 
I have not said a thing. 
Things are not what they need to be, 
but that does not matter. 
I will stand beside you forever. 

Getting...Read More

The Winter Hours

Cold is not my friend. 
It loves me, 
but it is not…
a mutual affair. 
Slowly, artfully, cruelly, 
my joints begin to freeze up. 
They ache in the morning. 
They are soar in the afternoon. 
They are painful later...Read More

The Cane

Not made of candy, but real wood. 
It belonged to my father’s father, 
and his father, before him. 

No, they were all good man. 
all equally healthy and mostly happy. 
The one thing they all had, 
that was shared…...Read More

An Alliance

The world is calling out, 
for a time…
when things the are true, 
they are not, 
and they should be.
 
Undetermined, 
yet ordained opposites,
facts instead of dreams. . 

Lunacy. 
the normal…
mental…
path.

Bipolar…
got my scripts.
yesterday. 

The weak and the lost, 
a band...Read More

While his sister hosts a party,
(Only females may attend)
We'll be entertaining Henry
And the fun will never end.

What we plan is a museum 
(Getting there by train and bus)
And a play date with a neighbor,
Who lives down the hall from us.

Maybe...Read More

The kiss

her lips had kissed many a man a butterfly
Fragrant and vivid like a spring day in May 
Yet not to the point of pollination.
 She waited for a kiss that tasted of wealth
She dreamed of a castle and ballgown...Read More

The Red Bag

Big and jolly, lots of folly, 
what do you have in the bag?
It is full of toys and gifts. 
It is full of mirth and laughter. 
It is full of all the things, 
that make us wish for…
and...Read More

New and Reused…Wrappings

Paper,
blue, green and red, 
yellow and gold together, with bells. 
I dream about all the holidays, 
that have passed by, 
since you left. 

They have been good, 
and bad, and hard and full.
Many were also empty. 
Some were...Read More

The Line

At the store, 
there was a sea of people. 
Not one or two or a thousand, 
drops from heaven, 
that never stopped
On a parched land
of holiday cheer. 

Shopping lists, 
wish lists, 
Christmas lists, 
and the like, 
none to show...Read More

The Snow Falls

Softly my love, 
I watch every flake,
come slowly from no where, 
outside my vision, 
beyond the window boundaries,
magical…even whimsical…
the white soft “above”, 
to the hard ground here below. 
soon a giant blanket of pure…beauty. 

You fell asleep in...Read More

What Party Are You?

Huh?
Does it matter?
Who I voted for? 
I am alive, 
so it was legal. 
I have not been dead, 
for thirty years. 
Surely that is enough. 

If I tell you this or that, 
you will condemn me
for the...Read More

New Friends

High and low I have looked for you.
You are hard to find.
I talked to everyone, but they think...
I am crazy.
Where are you?

Low and high, I can not see,
me, with you.
I wish that you would love me back,
but you can...Read More

The Stars in My Life

I look up,
I can not see you for the lights,
of the city.
I know you are still there,
I have faith.
Some things are like that,
there and not there,
but regardless,
hope...
has no boundaries.
...Read More

Historical Outlaws

What, are you talking about? 
I am saying that we have a past. 
It is full of guns, and law, 
and law breakers. 
It is full of heroes and villains
and homemakers. 

We are America(s). 
We stand up, 
we do...Read More

The Land of dream

 Early Tuesday morning when the night
Glides into a new beginning somewhat reluctantly 
And no police sirens have been cutting the night
Till before and after sleep.
I will like to go to India. the vivaciousness of
The humanity intrigues...Read More

Impeach My Peaches

I voted for Donald Trump. 
I wanted a change in life. 
I wanted to believe, 
that my country, 
still was the best in the world, 
then when the prior 
President, 
told me (all of us) we, 
would never...Read More

Singing in the Dark

You are everything to me, 
why can’t you see, that you are…
X2

I wake up,
and breath you in, 
sometimes.
I want to cry
and then, 
You make me laugh, 
You make me smile, 
You make me believe, 
if just, for...Read More

The 'Great American Novel'
What every English major wants to write 

The Great American Poem'
  ~ Nowhere on their radar's sight...Read More

Where is this book 
Where can i find
It will encourage my growth 
It stimulate my mind

This book will teach me
To become a competitive rival
It’s called Be Knowledgeable 
The Strategy of Survival 

Where is this book
Where can I find
It will encourage...Read More

Stolen Statues

The glory of yesterday, 
taken down and destroyed. 
Pummeled into dust,
by those that stole their rights, 
to be where they are. 
They promised good things, 
and took away all that 
meant anything. 
They replaced our heroes
with shadows, 
and demanded,
more...Read More

One More

Ingredients are a funny thing. 
Timing is probably more important. 
But it is hard to say really. 

I cooked all day, but…
I wanted it to be perfect, but…
I thought I had it, but…

The turkey refused to get in the...Read More

Mush-mellows and Cream

Sweet cream and butter, 
sugar, milk and eggs, 
the treat to eat, 
and no one knows, 
the secret. 

“Mush” is a funny plant, 
It flowers in strange places. 
Where hearts cry, birds lie, 
and the truth, 
is well...Read More

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