Beauty

. The Elders I watched them wilt, I watched them fade, I watched them pass In the evening shade, And...

. Valiant Men The sailors brave the angry storm __As waves the ocean brings. It seems to them one hundred...

. Potina’s Charm In this excerpt from the screen novella, Potina, Lady of the Stag, Potina speaks to Kaptara, the...

. Leaves Behind In size and shape and symmetry The leaves upon a maple tree Are like small selfies of...

. Repaired Debris drifts down my lacrimosa stream shards discarded when my life exploded. Her cheating ripped apart my every...

. The Return of Trump No matter how you try to stop Don Trump __He always will come back. __He’ll...

. The Last Man on the Moon for Gene Cernan My gaze was set toward the Western sky, To see...

. Writing a Poem Our planet moves, and so do we, By forces that we cannot see. Rhyme, meter always...

. Lullaby of New Mexico, Part Two Part One can be read here. Duerme Papi---Dad, it’s time to rest. I...

. Do Not Return "...forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead." ---Philippians...

. Our Superman Porfirio Landa (1925–2022), one of the United States Army’s longest surviving World War II veterans The modest...

. Mother Nature Is Bipolar Mother Nature is bipolar. She needs to take a pill. One minute she's a blowhard....

. The Cricket These mornings there’s a cricket cross the way Whose chirrup purls and eddies in the air, Autumnal...

. Autumn Trail Dreamy glimpses of a world recalled and yet to come: The Stagecoach Trail declines and wends through...

. Note: The above photos are of the poet's grandparents, Herbert W. & Evelyn Slater Tweedie in 1914 Wedding Picture;...

. Sonnet to a Friend It’s you who’ve been a constant in my life from earliest thirst and to this...

  The Players Legacy: The Saga Begins is a 14-chapter narrative poem that is set to launch on January 21, 2023....

. Gone Are the Days The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is...

. A Half Century Ago Oh there once was a time in our nation so fair, When the pledge to...

. The Modern Prometheus Grrrr! Linden trees with falling leaves infest These ancient mountains. Crimson-faced they scream Like mobs in...

. Everyday Angels  inspired by Guadalupe Amejorado (1955-2021)  They don’t appear in swathes of white   __On scintillating wing.  Their heads aren’t crowned...

. Cemetery The grasses, flowing amber on the breezethat speaks to me in verses intimate,are stilled, as if contented to...

. Storehouse of Memories My memory seems worst of foes when conjuring the times she knows will hurt me worse...

. While Reading Burns' 'Stanzas: On the Same Occasion' "Fain would I say" Burns wrote, has me inspired. Perhaps this...

. Meditation Say to yourself at break of day: today I shall meet people who are meddling, ungrateful, proud, treacherous,...

. What Life Throws at Us A sentiment can sometimes get the best Of me and bring hard logic to...

. The Trees: A Moment Amongst the trees in such a wood That veils the sky with vaults of green,...

. Ambience Oh, what a difference lighting throws __On these autumnal scenes, As back and forth it hides or shows...

. When Orpheus Looked Back I find no peace. I lean upon this stone As wine-dark waves crash on the...

. Last Words They say I traced my finger in the air Before I died and let the wind erase...

. The Red Sea From quite far off we smelled its salt And now stand stunned upon its shore. We...

. Eluding Beauty  “No legacy is so rich as honesty.” ---William Shakespeare I yearn to write about the moon, __The...

. Just Not Alone…   I never asked For easy tasks, For burdens light For just delights. Expected not The...

. Moonburst I saw a comet streak across the night, And rend the sky with fire-tipped harpoon; While stars went...

. Σχολή (Leisure) A Meditation on Horace’s Carmen I.IX You see the glist’ning peak of Mount Soracte, which towers, high...

. Making Apple Butter Once he got the fire good and hot, Old Silas filled the kettle with some cider;...

. Critical Failure Failure to launch in every direction; Ran out of fuel before firing the rocket. Time for some...

. Tower of the Winds Eight winds blowing, bluster overflowing,Buffet all the crevices of earth.Eight winds searching, lustily and lurching,Spawning...

. Brain to Heart God has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human...

. The Good Samaritan Scene: The road between Jerusalem and Jericho. It is now three days since a good Samaritan...