My Childhood Home
I strolled the lanes, streets and byways of my childhood home, and like echoes of my past, I heard the
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Inspirational Poetry
Inspirational poems are about finding creative or spiritual inspiration. Examples are: His poetry is inspired by nature. A poem about how her belief in herself (or her faith) healed her. A poem about how a dog adopted a homeless kitten, which inspired a human to learn about love and caring. A poem about someone who continued to pursue their goal overcoming all obstacles.
A Single Candle of Hope
Our single candle of hope… Forever hope… For all the fading hope and darkness present, for all the hatred that
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Mother Nature’s Gifts to Behold
Mother Nature’s Gifts … I wander in the woods, bereft and alone, No aim had I, no defined path to
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My Refuge, My Solace
My one true refuge… Were it not for the refuge of inner reprieve, I would not know myself as well,
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As Christmas Approaches
When all is done, aspirations complete, past all reconciled and forgiveness accepted for all we’ve done: all mistakes, all hurt
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Listen to My Rhyme
Who am I but a rhyme, unwritten, a blacksmith of words, pounding out each and every phrase into an aesthetic
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To Forgive and Rise
Each step, her feet upon the earth did pain, her troubles like broken glass upon her soles, and each dragging
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A Shimmering Kiss
As if on the wings of flight-ed doves, in sight of horizon’s languid end, between gilt clouds and as orange
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Worth the Risk of Sweet Love’s Bliss
Love’s sweet enigma haunts my waking hours, like a duplicitous lie of intention, it casts shadow upon itself, ecstasy and
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Accepting Happiness and Not Seeking It Out
Happiness is the greatest illusion of all, as we forge paths to that end, yet find in every pursuit, nothing
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Transcending the Pages of Daily Life
Transcending circumstance by decision… And fall as they may around us, no fate is determined by numbers, and hope lost
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Tears Of Remembrance To Fallen Heroes
Tears of Remembrance I can still remember each and every time I found myself keeping watch Standing slightly off-center, reading
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Thoughts on Twilight
Thoughts on Twilight As sunlight smears sacred vermilion on the tapering gap between day and night, crimson ribbons released from
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Falling In and From Love
Falling in love…the easy part How far in love’s name, should we fall, relent on all for one perfect moment,
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Always Hope, In Abundance
She gave herself to impropriety, immersed herself in desires of the flesh, and sought only pleasure to seal her earthly
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Self-Affirmation
A poem of self-affirmation… Affirmation, self-belief… Fall I might, to the temptations, yet never my soul, my core, as darkness
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As Thoughts Do Wander
Wander, my thoughts of beauty… Amid the gloaming, fireflies upon the lake do cast reflections of beauteous lights, trails of
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The Node, Where I See Me
Tis but a node, a link to elsewhere, that my mind wishing solace takes, a sanctum need, and in the
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What More Awaits
I have bled, felt the life flow out, that pungent smell of iron, rich and potent, and as it found
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GENEROSITY – An Acrostic Poem
GENEROSITY Give away what you can spare, Everyone must learn to share. Never hoard what you don’t need, Eat enough
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Transcendent Dawn
The dawn transcends the night with summer flair, rich golden shards splayed out in glorious display, and as creatures awaken
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A Christmas Carol In My Own Words
Tis an hour deep into the nighttime when the sounds first reveal themselves Northern winds howl and whistle across the
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