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My Poems:
My Mother’s Hand
Deepest of the Deep
Housekeeping
Two Mast Sailboat

Life occurs in context, and it’s why passion and emotion are best portrayed in a poem.
Singular adjectives habi […]

——Silence
Until then
The storm unleashed a tirade
Windswept
Rain pummeled our shelter
Fearfully
We waited a crash of walls
Abruptly
Quiet deafened the darkness

——Stillness
Until light
We swelter […]

Last night
The full moon rippled
On the intra-coastal
This morning
Its waters were placid

As on every sunrise
The east awakened to
Vibrant colors and,
Aside a two-piece bather,
Egrets prancing on […]

From the wisdom of Aristotle
“We are what we repeatedly do”
I am a log that rolls out of bed
Each morning, with crusted lids
I stumble to the bathroom

So many have asked me
Now that I’m in retir […]

It’s been mentioned frequently
Since the presidential debate
But in derogatory terms:
“Housekeeping”

Two days after our US arrival
With few words spoken in English
My mother proudly took the title […]

I felt her hand on the day I was born
And everyday thereafter
Her skin was soft,
As her guidance was firm.
There never was a question
Of what she wanted for me to do:
Accomplish all I wished, and wish […]

—Voyage
Never to have happened
Nor celebrated
Into the abyss
Absent of light
But a distant glow
—I was
Deepest of the deep
—Loneliness
Passion buried within
My heart
Afraid to be touche […]

 
From a cascade of stars
Shone the only light
Scattered among many
Was a similar stone
As that submerged
In a silent channel
He had handed me
As I then reached for
Through my flesh it pierced
Our union […]

 
The café was only a few blocks walk from the hotel. Robert waited at a table facing the entrance. At forty-five minutes from their phone conversation, a man about his own age, dressed as if he only had r […]

 
On trajectory to the moon, the Command Service Module (CSM) seemed to pirouette as it spun around to face the separated second stage. At that moment, the luminescence of the Earth came into view and, […]

 
Between checkpoints on his metal ringed binder, Curt glanced out the side window while on the earth orbit. As the spacecraft slowly rotated on its axis to maintain a balance of heat on the outside shield, the […]

 
A corrugated tin roof extended beyond the concrete walls of the restaurant and shielded a section of the sidewalk. Two tables were set under its cover.  “The breeze here feels perfect,” said Curt and sat at th […]

 
It was a rough ride on the South Bank Road, which ran mostly parallel to the Gambian River. With potholes on the infrequent asphalted segments and gouges from erosion on the dirt sections, Curt would have […]

 
Like white gold dripping from a celestial vat, the full moon was rising above the river’s eastern horizon, at which it spilled a bright strip of its reflection onto the placid water. Curt knew he was not in th […]

 
“What’s that on the headline?” he asked Claudia at the hotel coffee shop. “Soviet Rocket Hits Moon After 35 Hours,” he read out loud, then rushed to buy the newspaper. The remainder of the article failed to […]

 
Nature carries plenty of unwanted drama, most of which becomes inspirational. With Death Valley unfolding well below sea level before him, the view from Towne Pass at 4,956 feet was dramatic as it was […]

 
So much had been left unsaid and plans unfulfilled, but Robert never thought there would not be a tomorrow. He didn’t want Xochi to be gone, but she was and recently buried. Among the heartache, Robert felt a […]

 
Brandon returned into the kitchen. With two beer bottles clinking in his one hand grasp, he continued when he sat back on the chair, “I was a medic and saw how men die…With a bullet ripping your head off or a […]

 
On a festive blanket of fallen leaves, Curt walked to the graveside. “To everything there is a season,” the minister had read from Ecclesiastes 3 during the ceremony, and from seeing the beauty of the fore […]