Desire for
romance
and new
experiences
brought
what was wanted
The romance
was lovely
while it
lasted
New
experiences came
and faded
The
pleasures thinned
The
memories remained
Saturday, February 14, 2026
DESIRE, a poem
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Monday, December 15, 2025
CONSIDERING
DEATH
When my
body cries out
in endless pain
or thinking
begins to fade
from a
crumbling brain,
can I plunge
into the Styx
or must I wait
for God
to provide a
terminal fix
Thomas More
wrote in UTOPIA: (1516) that a person afflicted with disease can "free
himself from this bitter life…since by death he will put an end not to
enjoyment but to torture… it will be
a pious and holy action".
Saturday, November 15, 2025
BOUND FOREVER
Could there
have been another
equally as captivating
for my life
as you
Perhaps,
but I’ll never know
since we
were bound together
forever
by an indefinable
potion:
Our love
Saturday, October 18, 2025
LINGERING LIFE
Forget the quality of life
A
mere spark
in
a near corpse
is
reason enough
for
some doctors
and
relatives
to continue
on
with
feeding tubes
and
liquid drips
because
life is precious
even
when there is
no
apparent joy
in
this still living Being
After
all, miracles happen
After
all, Lasarus was raised
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
WRITER'S BLOCK
Inspiration,
where are you?
Hidden in a
recess of my brain
dangling
teasingly out of reach?
Just give
me an enticing idea
Hopefully, even
a tiny spark
will stir
me to write again
Monday, August 18, 2025
AT 91
At ninety-one,
seventy-year-olds
seem so young
because at
that wonderful time
my body was
strong and graceful
not aching
with collapsing legs
So, seventy-year-olds,
who are in
good shape,
revel in
your youth
ninety-one is coming
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