When you command both love and hate, And have in mind when each is due, Yet not let hate consume your love, Then friend and foe shall...

The contest was held in the valley low, And for miles around the people would go, To see the winner for the next year, And give him or...

They call him Phoenix, but few know why, For few know legends or why men cry. It’s said that this man’s sorrowful past, Was dark and...

Through the window shone the sun, The day was warm and bright. It seemed a day for hope and fun, A joyful, verdant, summer sight. He...

While working on his plot of ground The man looked up to stare At stones piled high to form a mound, To keep him out of there. He slowly...

She whispers softly into my ear. Down my cheek there rolls a tear. She holds me close to her at night, Making going to bed a pure...

Time, ever so deceiving. Time is not for pleasing. Through the front door of youth, Out the back door of old age, Often silent, often...

When I was young, maybe three, I used to dream about the sea. I used to think of things I’d do, While sailing on waves of blue. When I...

Must the young soldier die, Without really knowing why? Must his widow weep, From thoughts of his mined jeep? Must the soldier’s father...

She entered my life one lonely spring, As a teacher who was always helping. She asked me to come to school, And use learning as a tool To...

Once upon a moonless night, Came my greatest fright. In bed with the silence of the night, My heart nearly leaped into flight. A shadow...

Staring through the windowpane, Focused on crystalline pearls of rain, Euphoric, relaxed, in no pain, Just floating freely, no chain. Now...

He was still tall and slim And his hair was thinning fast, And he sat around the table, Telling stories of the past. Of a war that he...

In days of yore, close to the shore, A comely, green-eyed maiden did await, With anxious smile that could beguile, The gods and goddesses...

There is a brutal beast inside. I wish it was not there. Against my will it does reside, Unwanted, but it doesn’t care. Behind that fake...

Through the window shone the sun, The day was warm and bright. It seemed a day for hope and fun, A joyful, verdant, summer sight. He...

The fog is rolling in, An ethereal blanket of gloom, Like a sheet pulled over a corpse, To seal its final doom. The fog keeps rolling in,...

If old man violence Would take a rest, To stop to suckle Upon a breast, The world might pass The “Human Test,” And those most crass Might...

Come gather around the well. Come gather around the well, I have a story to tell, About a man who dropped a quarter Into this black, deep...

Ghosts noisily roam In my mental zone. Ghosts of those slayed For wrongs they played In a time long gone In a war long done Where...