Do you know how pretty you are,

in the light of the ev'ning star?

As I caress your pretty face,

and hold hands while fingers enlace,

Beauty herself is here with you,

entrancing me with love anew.

               Sept. 19, 1998

What could be said versus what should be said,

As tact vies with truth to cause me travail.

What reflections should stay unsaid instead?

I pray an honest mix of both prevail.

                      March 25, 1999

A friendly friend shares your trust,

A friendly lover shares your lust,

A loving friend shares your strife,

A loving lover shares your life.

                  March 30, 1999

 What is poetry?

And what is verse?

What is picturesque prose?

I seek to know the difference,

and find someone who knows.

          March 30, 1999

Choices upon choices,

Many paths labrythine,

A fork taken from here,

Leaves the others unseen.

             May 31, 1999

 Twilight's hue,

Morning's dew,

A few of the moments

I think of you.

  June 16, 1999

What delight is there in cursing your brother

 unfurling swears like a flag on a wall?

 What cheer is gained by calling another

 names which insult, and debase, and appall?

  March 21, 1998

 Dividing the thick woodland oak and pine,

 And grassy meadow green,

 Is a boundary we call the "tree line."

 On one side, I'm encroaching thirty nine,

 April 7, 1998

Among the poems carried full term, there lay  

a few that miscarry along the way.  

 May 3, 1998

 Lend themselves to curses.

 Heavy-footed columns,

 March on past in threesomes,

 Pounding on my eardrums.

  June 26, 1998  

Attractive to the eyes,

 So pleasing to the nose,

 Evokes from lovers, sighs;  

Earth's fragrant gift, the rose.

 July 13, 1998

 Too tired to read, too restless to sleep,

 Begging for a good, long, night's slumber deep.

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