A Self-Effacing Beauty

Not just another pretty faceOr boasting of looks other women should mimicTaught at a young age to value nothing by…

Time Travel

I want to call herWith words I’d say hoping maybeAre warm enough to reachNow back to then and break the…

The WNBA holds its 2024 draft today. Caitlin Clark is expected to be the number one pick. The lucky team…

As a child he dreamedOf being a knight in shining armorSlaying dragons and winningThe fairest maiden in the landBenighted by…

I’m happy to say that my latest collection of poems, Every Wave Will Whisper, is now available on Amazon in…

I take great comfort in knowing thisThat the dead still live in my memories of themSo they are with me…

My addiction began with my bracesThe pain they brought bothering me as nothingCompared to the agonizing torture inflictedBy bits of…

I remember the photo shootOnly because it’s burned in my brainFrom daily seeing myself posed in the frameDressed in little…

In Hawai‘i we might say“This one mo’ bettah than that one” for, say, a flavor of shave ice,and perhaps, “This…

Your grave does look newNot just the polished markerI see the way the green grass spreads out behind itTo a…

When I was boundWas I bound tightFrank Gorshin pleaseRiddle me this How can you ever feelYou’ve been turned freeWhen you…

The day is young and I am notSo slowly walk this beaten pathMy daily pondering strollScanning the surroundingsSearching for a…

In the last years I wonderWhy I have to do thisVisit in the nursing homeNow that your mind is goneAnd…

A writer should show and not tellI’ve heard that advice foreverSo if you and I were a storyThe better final…

One night flying home from ArgentinaI suffered an unavoidable layover in LAXArriving at 8:00 p.m. exhaustedMy connecting flight to HonoluluWould…

Those weren’t soft footstepsTip-toeing up the stairsWhen Gordon Lightfoot took offJumped the last jet planeTo rise whole and healedFar above…

You replace a faucet set on one of your sinks, the old one having ceased to function. How many times…

And wraith-like rollsSome marble maybeSmiles at nothing visibleAs far as I can seePlays some internal gameKnown only to herWith the…

His was the hand of light isWherever it wavedIn his wave we saw intoWithout end will see beyond darkness All…

At last it looked like the summit could be reached in no time. Although asleep, I still felt energy radiating…