THE WORLD CAN BE A RAGING STORM Where winds blow harsh and brusque I’ve taken all that life could deal And all that’s left is us I’ve given much, I’ve given in I’ve given up my pride I’d give it all to spend my life With you here by my side So there it was […]

THERE ARE THINGS THAT WE MUST DO And there are things we want Our struggles to align them Were discussed in depth by Kant Logic needs to take control And hold back fleeting whim Or else we might not really know If we will sink or swim We’ve all been there and gone for it […]

IN THE ’50s AND THE ’60s Bosses bossed their secretaries Women trained in typing Didn’t seem like they were scary Well then along came Steven Jobs To have his finest hour The typers had the inside track To use computer power And what about the nerds and geeks Who took it from the meanies Now […]

EASTER IS THE TIME OF YEAR That Christian folks embrace Their happy children trying to find A dyed egg’s secret place Chocolate bunnies sit on shelves And Peeps are everywhere The smell of hams and candied yams And pies beyond compare All that’s nice but when it’s done Make time for some reflection To think […]

ON A TRIP TO MEXICO We landed in Cancun And drank and ate and danced about Among the beach’s dunes Right there outside our balcony A small stone Mayan ruin We donned our flip-flops then we hopped Downstairs to see what’s stewin’ We got our morning meal at nine It just was me and Donna […]

IT’S HAPPENING IN THE DESERT As it happened on the plain It happened in the jungle And it’s happening again Our dearest treasures sacrificed To fight for God knows what No sleep for kids in combat zones With knots tied in their gut They come from every city Asked to kill and bleed and die […]

A PIECE OF LINT IN LIQUID Sliding blithely ‘cross my eye Has hitched a ride so I can watch On tears I use to cry When I look up it rises And when I look down it falls It’s all I see and beckons me To follow when it calls It helps me to project […]

RAMSES TOLD OLD MOSES That he didn’t like his tricks And then withheld from Israel The straw to make their bricks The tit for tat went back and forth Got worse and then moreover Ramses sealed his own son’s fate That was the first Passover And so it happens all the time When two sides […]

LUCK COMBINES WITH FATE And kismet happens time to time Déjà vu reminding you The stars sometimes align You check the clock, to your surprise The time’s two-twenty-two Or one-eleven oh my heaven Time’s meant just for you You’re talking in an airport To a stranger you’ve just met You find out they’re related to […]

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