I'm sitting contemplating where we are today. Comparing it to where we came from. I started to wonder, are we truly better off today than yesterday? We have this thing called the internet. It connects us to the outside world. Our friends are over the worl...
I wake in the morningAnd rouse out from my bedVisions of yesterdayStill dancing in my head. Down the hall, I do walkTrying not to stumbleThoughts and words come to meThey're all in a jumble. To that place in the houseFinally make my wayTis here that I beg...
I do not know what I really ownSomething held by me all alone. Something I can show for all to seeAn object that belongs to only me. The most valued is not really a thingBut happiness and joy to me it brings. It is just words appearing on my screenThey sp...
I've suddenly gotten old I'm rather set in my waysBut when I go dining outI'm the one that has to pay. Some like the one eateryThey claim it's almost heavenTo me that place is notI just call it Barf Evans. Another sits on every cornerWith arches of gold o...
It is vaster than the open plainsIt is higher than the mountain peaksIt is deeper than the oceansIt is warmer than the sun.It is stronger than a mighty bullIt is softer than a kittenIt is tender as a child's embraceIt gives on quarterIt lifts you when you...
She came to me As a friend request I excepted her offer Thinking it was best. She read my works Thought I was good I read some of hersAs I should. We chat and laugh Black Boxes untold True soulmate found More to unfold. There would I be This night so late...
He's outside in the backyardDeep in his own thoughtsWhen thunder claps overheadIn the present, no longer lost. He hears the rain comingWalking across the forest floorRunning to the house for safetyAs close as the backdoor. The storms strikes with voracity...
Sleep, Oh beautiful sleep Let me rest softly For I am so tired Sleep, Oh beautiful sleep Sleep, Oh restful sleep Let me lie down Just one more time Sleep, Oh restful sleep Sleep, Oh warming sleep Let me retire now Under your thick green blanket Sleep, Oh...
I'm sitting at my computerA story I want to writeAll I need are the wordsTo make it come out right. Just an idea or a thoughtTo write the next great bookThe computer screen is blankGiving me a dirty look. The words are there I knowJust where, I can not te...
Three little kobe fish swimming in a poolShawl on her shoulder the days rather coolSitting and watching the waters gentle wavesDoppled sunlight reflects, her thoughts were to saveA book of poetry rests there in her handAs her husband is off again, gone ov...
I would like to relate to you a little story. As some of you know, if you've read my profile, I did at one time do Civil War reenacting. Shortly after I started, I met another reenactor whose name was Neil. The irony behind this meeting was that we were n...
Upon their bed both do lieHer on her side just rightAnd him right behindSpooned together this tonight. His hand is on her stomachPulling her closer and tightWhile she feels his warmthLying there together tonight. He runs a finger down to her hipShe slyly...
I lie here in bed tonightMy wife sleeping in my sightQuiet is her breathing nowBreaks the silence of this night. Sometimes I wonder if a past loverWere lying here in your placeI cannot recall all their namesAt times not even their face. But all I see now...
Before any of you think that the story is about that little boy and swaddling clothing, it's not. JC was a shiny new bicycle I received one Christmas. It was bright red and white with chrome trim and a tank with a horn. It came from Sears Roebuck, whose i...
