Poetry

I’ve seen her here before, the beauty Abileen, With silken hair and laughing eyes, she plays with friends unseen, And watching now again from behind a crooked tree, She lifts her gaze until it lifts to me. Oh what a treasure that has n’er before been seen, This graceful gem whom I call Abileen, A...

Gracie was much more than just a pet. To those fortunate enough to have known her, she was a friend, a companion, a healer. Taken much too soon, she will always live on in our hearts. I love you, honey. FOREVER GRACIE We brought you home on Independence Day, You sat on shoulder high to...

SOLDIER Watch the soldiers marching proudly by, Quick timing to the sergeant’s keening eye, And climbing ropes into the darkened sky; They run and crawl and sweat and bleed and lie– among the elements that most would never try, Then ride in tanks and climb in things that fly, Protect and serve, their nation til...

This is a sonnet I wrote for my daughter’s 18th birthday A BIRTHDAY SONNET A birth, and then a raucous round of cries, I felt the tears of wonder grace my cheek; As finally you opened infant eyes, This world, for whom your spirit now must seek. As years passed by like gently falling leaves,...