WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
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Ascending toward triumph-pinnacles
We tread circumspectly along life’s race
Optimizing God’s wondrous love and grace
Overcoming temptation tentacles.
Trekking upward mountainous faith...
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Categories:
sideward, blessing, christian, devotion, god,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The 80's Became the Present Again
...The 80's Became The Present Again
On the coast of Oahu
here, I was on a beach bus,
circling a sweet picture
in my mind,
white sands, blue seas, palms,
rolling all along
in a candy store.
It...
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Categories:
sideward, beach, beauty, candy, journey,
Form: Free verse
Itty Bitty Song
...ITTY BITTY SONG
Snip snip red hair
A pretty pretty long
Snip snip auburn light
While I sing this
Itty bitty song
Reveals a pale moon
So round o round
It reflects the pool
O round howdy h...
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Categories:
sideward, hair,
Form: Verse
Gamble With the Wind
...Life is full of chances
But the number is not known,
Careful steps and sideward glances
Voice our fear of the unknown.
You've never played this game before
You do not know the rules,
Ant thro...
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Categories:
sideward, career, change, faith, family,
Form: Rhyme
Dust On the Head
...Before the mid night,
Under the elms beside my cottage
I stood still wet by the gentle falling rain, watching it drenching the nature reserves.
Where the gentle breeze from the cold touching...
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Categories:
sideward, analogy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Geese Fly By
...It’s Autumn weather, geese fly by,;
Autumn rust,red,gold,so gay
Drystone walls edging fields,
Apples gathered,holly berries
Flash so brightly
Look like flowers
Sun shines sideways,shadows long
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Categories:
sideward, allegory, beauty, metaphor, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Musing
...it only takes a sideward
glance
to see you wave; my
peripathetic mind
takes in that sight of you.
pain is but a stroke of luck
and the decency of the hour
id just a sideward glance that remind...
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Categories:
sideward, love, me,
Form: Free verse
Kentucky Girl
...Kentucky Girl
Passing meadows lush with grass
Rail fences painted white
Stretching off toward distant hills
I observed an remarkable sight
She was a Kentucky girl
Bred from champion stock
Proud and...
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Categories:
sideward, animalsme,
Form: Rhyme
Ol' Bear & Sarah
...This was to be their first, grand journey.
Who would dare believe?
Sarah Maple, and Ol’ Bear
Her special, robot teddy!
Both, strapped inside Securely;
Await a lifetime ride;
Her heart is jum...
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Categories:
sideward, adventure, space, visionary,
Form: Narrative
Riding To Appomattox
...Old Traveler steps out mighty proud
As we watch him paw and prance.
His rider, sitting poker straight,
Casts not a sideward glance.
In uniform immaculate
A...
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Categories:
sideward, history, people, social, autumn,
Form: I do not know?