Milquetoast existence A vanilla life No peaks no valleys No drama no strife Nothing to highlight

Another lovely morning, but just a… To when we bid adieu; leave this w… Still, we’re thankful to be alive,… Quite hopeful there’s another univ… Where we’d go, at the climax of ou…

’Twas the warmest night of the sum… Damp, muggy, suffocating and miser… The old ceiling fan droning; a flu… Of gossamer wings; the heat unbear… She lay beside him above the bedco…

The world grows darker with each p… As shadows deepen, skies are set a… From mountain peaks to hidden, twi… Sauron’s gaze falls with wrathful,… No cries are heard by heaven’s dis…

Through empyrean heights the hawks… Then dive with grace as twilight s… Like shooting stars ‘gainst the mu… While fading light stretches the h… The air is diaphanous and lace-lik…

O’er the eons rain fell mostly in… And a great blue lake was heretofo… But the surrounding peaks hungered… Now they’re treeless, barren and f… Yet cast against lake and sky in s…

This morning, I woke up early But my fogged-up brain still aslee… I can’t think; and function barely… No brilliant verses from the keep! So I got up, drank my coffee

And so, I paused a moment, there… As verses came to mind; the birth… Then a smile curled my lips; and a… Gripped my heart, for at last, my… For when words abandon me, I’m a…

One can only imagine a weekend lik… Time to enjoy calm and serenity an… There will be no distractions for… And nightly moonlit dinners at isl… Small white puffs sail across the…

The Argo nearly sank, some sixty… Battered by strong winds and might… Her sails were torn; her bowsprit… And the Argonauts awaited their w… The tempest roared, lasting for ma…

For many days it poured unrelentin… Behind thick hoary clouds Apollo… Wrothful infuriated Zeus pulled t… Rain torrential no longer nourishi… Poseidon gloating; for he ruled th…

You’re eighteen! The world’s at y… Spring is behind you; summer’s rig… We pray sunny days will make your… Stay true to yourself, be never mi… Life will change; welcome it with…

A Sonnet Thick rain clouds out east may be… But the sun overhead rules cloud f… Vivid blue canvas right before our… The sea and sky each other flatter…

center Brown clay, soft and moist Shapeless, without form Amorphous, malleable No backbone like a worm

Growing old too tough for the youn… Their childish minds will be hamst… But we old fogies can ace it With determination and grit Body aches and pain each morning