A fork in the road To the west Jerusalem Due east Babylon Thousands traveling eastward But the road west deserted

Carpe Diem Through the sky, morning light bre… Dancing leaves move with the breez… I walk slow purposefully For today’s joy, I will seize!

The sky’s grim and pitch black The moon and stars have hidden Behind the sinister rain clouds; A nether world, light has forgotte… Then a bright flash, a beam of lig…

Pure joy and sadness never coexist Neither bliss and grief; for they’… But love and hate can, and often t… Emotions run deep, and debris accr… Love builds and uplifts, but hatre…

When young, we haven’t been around… Nearly everything, we could rememb… Whether all those events really ha… Who knows, but it didn’t really ma… Dreams and fantasies all we had wh…

How dare you doubt my existence When here I am, in your presence. If I don’t exist in your view, Most assuredly, neither do you! You say I’m just a fleeting thoug…

One day in the garage we saw a big… It wasn’t moving, I thought it wa… Even so, I got a broom The critter met its doom My wife quite frightened, she won’…

As a youth, I felt like superman An immortal, an ultimate warrior But life tempered my outlook Sadly, now I have become a worrie… © F Aparici

Scented love notes he penned for h… Hidden in a book he returned to he… Alas, o’er the years remained unop… That he adores her, she found out… Then high school ended and life in…

Limerick Just for Laughs A woodland fairy lives on the east… All alone in a wooden shack; every… She’s young and loves company But no other fairies she could se…

Sleet then freezing rain Impassable roads highways Perhaps many days Fireplace roaring flames Keeping warm the dreary room

Overhead the mid-day sun’s heat sc… None to drink since morn temperatu… Less than a mile to go Soon endgame he’ll know Though ahead in the woods; hostile…

the pitter-patter of the rain lulled him into deep sleep dreams, the gods did ordain he didn’t even count sheep! and he saw her in a dream

Gray skies shed its dark menace In crystal droplets, rain fell Refreshing, life sustaining Now the sun shines and all’s well How can I go back to sleep?

A Sonnet to May Here’s to the glorious stunning mo… Nourished by beneficent April sho… Sprouts have become fragrant color… Adding more beauty to the late spr…