The chirping crickets the hoot of… In the calm stillness of the autum… Clear skies red Betelgeuse shinin… In the gentle breeze one hears the… At forest edge predators on the pr…

Some verses written Will ne’er see the light of day In my heart they’ll stay Pieces of myself they are Locked tight in a Mason jar

Where the sea meets the sky At the edge of nowhere Where the ocean drops to an abyss, I hear sounds of mirth and laughte… For a kingdom lies there

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…

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

Sadly, the bathroom mirror never l… An old man, three scores and a dim… Stares at him, dark shadows under… Face wrinkled, ancient like Fathe… Hair once black, wavy; now sparse…

Somehow, our lives are never how we’ve wished them to be even when we wrote the script, the guidelines for living our stor… We’ve made plans, even a screenpla…

He stared at the board In hyperfocus! Oblivious to the world Intense and nervous... This never gets old

Suddenly without warning the storm… Upending all things standing in it… Debris everywhere, the world gone… Houses and trees, no one was spare… Roofs and branches littered fields…

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

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

fathers and sons sons and fathers a relationship with unique dynamic… most times rewarding and immensely gratifying

A dead doe, belly up, udders showi… Under a tree in an ocean of grass Half mile away a herd of deer graz… Silently mourning what has come to… Overhead the morning sun burning b…

Awakened from slumber, she remembe… She’s a drab, speckled-winged pepp… Trivial, unseen in the brown bark… A camouflaged moth, a trifling bub… In the dream a butterfly appears,…

A Love Sonnet The tension mounts, sparks about t… An earthy fragrance, as after a ra… Two hearts racing; all resistance… First looks all it took; passions…