Life knocks us down, without a sin… It spins us round, then pulls the… Baffled we’re left, not knowing wh… We chase our dreams, yet somehow g… Our plans are tossed like leaves u…

When the end comes, whispering thr… I’d wish to join the fields and ri… Meld with the earth, in nature’s a… My breath merging with the soft ev… Across the plains, I’ll be an oak…

The morning sky is bluer than blue No clouds anywhere to block the su… The ocean took on the celestial hu… And the far hills the color of cya… Sadly, an east wind rallies at noo…

Across the endless sea where dange… Brave Jason stands with purpose i… The Argo cuts the waves in steady… Through tempests fierce and trials… The Golden Fleece, their long and…

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…

He strutted head high Accompanied by the chip On his broad shoulders A proud yet ignorant man With disdain for everyone

Blazing hot as the sun reached its… Hostile, desertlike in the sunbake… But thick leaden clouds floating f… Tempering the blistering heat at l… A stiff breeze blew when it was mo…

Its outer bands, emissaries of des… A broad swath, it struck with merc… Funnel clouds spawned, trees uproo… Roofs blown, houses leveled with i… Then the heavens gushed; sheets of…

warm water bubbled up the hot spring; as she minded wet clothes she hung on a string, between two poles wild flowers on her hair;

The breaking dawn is vast, but inf… A golden glow out east; but still… The landscape is grey despite the… But soon day will come to give nig… Snow fell relentlessly the whole n…

Words are arrows that can maim whe… Once spoken it’s impossible to tak… But words unsaid are lumps in the… If left unspoken will turn a heart… Words are sharp weapons at man’s d…

She clung to life, ever the fighte… To weather the storms fate threw h… Give up? Never! For life must go… Each and every breath! Every sing… For truly, every second’s a moment…

He felt invigorated When the cold air touched his skin Watching the sun rising up Beautiful magical scene He could taste the salty spray

The bookends of life, birth and de… Delineate our existence on planet… We know nothing before our first b… And when we die; dust is all we’re… Between the bookends are the lives…

A Sonnet When we were children, often we ha… Knowing consequences, notwithstand… Gaffes and blunders, screwups of e… Still we were defiant, unrelenting