Cat haiku

I put my seat belt on, Expect the unexpected. Cats chase sticks as well.

The Time is Spring

The time is spring. I love the spring! Would that it were spring All year long. Rain and sunny days Gardens and wild flowers Rivers plump with snow melt And baby bunnies emerging From the woodpile. Dragon Country: A Book of Plays From “In a…

The End

“Mighty Silverback, I whisper.” (pg. 300) and with that my book is done. No! my mind cries, it can’t be over. Oh! my heart cries, now for a new one.   “The One and Only Ivan” by Katherine Applegate  

My creations

Kept secret and safe. Written down for all time. The tomes of ideas are all mine.   I will protect what I create.

A Promise

I’d like to begin with a confession: I am not an expert in love.* In fact I am not an expert on many things. I can’t sing. I can’t dance. I struggle with rhyming. But I am willing to try. To try my best. To…

A new season arising

“I am going  out to clean the pasture spring” from “An Invitation The Pasture “ Robert Frost’s Poem by Louis Untermeyer   a new season arising just like springtime in our lives encountering and enriching forever refreshing and ever inflaming in our hearts   moving…

Sestina sex

Feel my gentle caress, my fingertips of lust. As you slowly undress, I could nearly combust. Teasing what I obsess, making your body thrust.   Yet as your hips thrust, to this tender caress. I feel your heart combust, stopping your undress. Now your eyes…

Phantom (sestina)

  It’s late and hard to Sustain His brain sings the same Refrain Life was not planned Judicious Trying to stay living is ludicrous Deep in the night lives Phantom He strikes song his only AnthemThe song he sang as Anthem Carried his heart to…