The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.

Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,

After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she

When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…

Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…

Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.

Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,

When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney

The average man looks at himself in the mirror 23 times a day, the average woman 16 times a British survey reports. Men look to “admire” themselves,