when the truth hurts we lie when it’s uncomfortable we lie when we are fearful

The heavens bluer than blue The ocean a shade deeper The sun rose as if on cue To make the world much brighter The sun climbed higher than high

Enter, Stage Right Not much to tell So this will be quick Nothing special happened Though many memorable moments

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…

I’m very sad that you got it too It’s not a crock, it’s quite true But words will be back, don’t be b… Before long, you’ll be good as new In two months, you wrote quite a f…

Almighty God, maker of all things I hear you when a little bird sing… I see you when the morning sun ris… I feel you in all of your disguise… Your face I see in the clouds abo…

center Old photographs Smudged and dog-eared Sepia, black and white Yellowed and faded

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…

E’er the optimist he brews lemonad… Whenever mishaps litter his pathwa… Facing the world unruffled unafrai… Setbacks mere challenges in shades… In the face of hurdles no surrende…

The sky is darkest in the midnight… When the new moon reflects not bor… The world appears mysterious but n… For the darkness conceals the eart… And all that’s visible are stars t…

Faraway long, long ago Lived an old, grizzled wizard With long beard as white as snow But the eyes of a lizard He walks with a long-gnarled staff

‘Twas early winter night, a pregna… Soon to be full, rose quarter high… And illumined the snowfield and fr… Otherworldly dreamscape, as far as… Vast wonderland gleaming in silv’r…

As the sun sinks into the horizon Sullen rain clouds come; dismal, f… Blown by the north wind, the roari… Baleful portent, the heavens darke… The green skies foretell incipient…

The afternoon clouds flew by until… Starlings by the thousands darkene… The air is still and heavy and sme… The rising crescent belied it was… He stands in the sidewalk alone, d…

The rumors of war have now come to… In deserted streets; rubble, broke… And crimson blood spilled on snow… Yet no one can say what the reason… Sleek iron birds soar raining dest…