Farewell fellow traveler We’ll see you on the flip-side May tailwinds guide you safely As you cross the great divide A real pleasure knowing you

He got up early, one Saturday mor… And very quickly put his sneakers… Shorts, an old shirt; while yawnin… Washed, brushed; ah! Bad breath g… He ran out the house, not telling…

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…

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

The strings of Rachmaninoff Wafted through the rarefied air Soothing her wrought up senses Her tensions soon disappear She feels peaceful, heavenly

A book is more than its leather bi… More than the gilded font in its t… It’s the tales in the pages unwind… The crux of the matter, that is vi… More than a warm skin and a beatin…

A Sonnet Perchance this is the last poem I… Without a doubt a sonnet it will b… One about nature’s grandeur and be… An enchanting universe with no bli…

She is the rain; life-giving, invi… Without her, his life a desert, ba… She is the sun; warm, radiant, lif… Through her, he feels the blessing… She is the wind; gently caressing…

Steady there it goes Life unfolds on the big stage From cradle to grave No second chances no breaks Sadly no multiple takes

Every night he overruns her dreams… her long gone yet unforgotten love Locking her in an embrace till her heart stops and she’s out of b… Lost and exhausted she wakes up ev…

In my reverie, I feel myself meld… One with the universe; one with th… Every fiber, every sinew, like com… Streaking to the far reaches of ou… I touch the moon and feel its silv…

I wish I had clairvoyance for a t… To see ahead and dodge each twist… Perhaps a glimpse would make my ch… And guide my steps before it is to… A crystal ball might show me what’…

Hot embers on a blust’ry arctic ni… Hardly a flicker, not a star on si… Horned horse in my dream, unicorn… Pow’r and gentleness; signs the fu… Hot beads flow slowly down my furr…

creatures grotesque, marbled wildl… stood on towers, lined up on rooft… of the gothic cathedral; muted sen… to ward off evil, calamities and m… for centuries the stone ogres vict…

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…