It Always Happens     It always happens, sooner or later A declaration of independence they make From parents who’ve nurtured from infants so small These child-people who now know

I Work Outside   Winter comes and I’m out here Cold bites my toes and nips my ear. Nature slaps my face with it’s cold north wind Eight hours are

Forever Seventeen   Supper’s ready!  I declare Then I catch myself, he’s not there. Now he eats with the Lord, Eternally fed, God kept his word.   Late at night

I was told that I mix metaphors and that rhyming poems are so yesterday so I decided to title a collection of poems that I wrote this! I am going

  It was Super Bowl Sunday. I was comatose on the couch, resting up so I could have the stamina to watch the game. I had fallen into a deep

  A Letter to My Young Self Dear Dan, I hope this letter gets to you in time, Dan. I need you to do something that could change history. There

The Broom In the course of Cuban history, when the Soviets were in Cuba, a plot was hatched to destroy the people’s will to resist the revolution. Rual Castro was

Hannah’s Legacy   Hannah was the sixth of ten siblings born to my youngest sister’s family. Hannah was special, she was autistic. My sister and her family were visiting Mom

‎The Hawks He saw them the first day on the job. They hung out at the edge of the tree line fifty yards from the house. The new home sat