Thank God, it’s Friday; week’s al… Bags packed, ready to go, come qui… The beach awaits; it’s gonna be su… For I’ll be spending time with my… I drive to work, my heart’s pitter…

When shadows fall, he contemplates… The weight of life too heavy to wi… Each step he takes he feels his wi… As hardships rise like waves upon… Through years of silence, struggle…

Here we are again, the end of the… Reflecting on events that have hap… The past twelve months, from begin… With bright smiles, but at times s… Farewells to friends and loved on…

Vermillion skies turned into black… Dotted with a billion glittering s… Emerging moon joined by Venus and… Imminent nightfall, breath-taking… Distant hills glowed in deepest vi…

A Treatise on Writing I text myself a line, a fleeting t… Then write, delete, and write the… Each word is weighed, each syllabl… Until the rhythm settles into view

He gazes into her eyes and sees hi… To hold her tight, embrace her for… The setting sun peeks behind the c… As they watch on the beach, along… They watch gliders jump off the th…

This is where first he kissed her Many summers ago when kids they we… Deep in love they were; a future t… But with no clue that– work at it,… In the infinity pool; white spray,…

Often, we’d recall anecdotes Juvenile stories, funny quotes Humorous tall tales from our youth Then realize the saddest truth The players; they’re no longer her…

always they come– tribulations, bi… heavy punishing rains or many days… losses, real or imagined, material… knock us down, fill us with paraly… but when dread and gloom inhabit o…

A Sonnet Wizened owls and battle tested eag… From faraway oceans and distant sh… They all came to roost to bond wit… To reminisce, lay down their weary…

Without a commitment to forgive To start afresh and anew each day, The heart hardens; unwilling to gi… Love loses its luster and fades to… Failure to forgive rings the doorb…

by bright lights we’re blinded, we… in danger and pitfalls, we could w… so, we hold out our hands; we shie… fearful we’d be in harm’s way othe… but still we move onward, always h…

Alas! it’s September; it’s summer… Sad farewell to hot days and sultr… Goodbye to flowered shorts and lin… Gone the sunny beaches; my erstwhi… Autumn’s here, sadly! there’s fenc…

The summer of their sixteenth year… Under the shade, exhausted, they r… A break from the midday sun; it’s… For neither knew the other existed Furtive glances torrid blushes bri…

Walls are built to keep the enemy… To protect the faithful who are wi… Still, outsiders welcome without a… And it matters not whatever their… For God hates the sin, never the…