Surrender not; hope, give up never
Look east! Rising, the radiant su
Soonest, it’s rays will warm us al
Light shall banish darkness, and w
Fret not therefore, the Lord shal

I locked the past in a little box
Hidden in a corner of my mind
Around it, a yellow ribbon
That someone left behind...
Sometimes, I go and open it

Two minutes, that’s an eternity!
My hands quiver at the steering wh
While stopped at a red traffic lig
Raring to fly in my automobile…
Wanting to leave the present behin

it rained; rather it poured!
sheets and buckets of water
fell in just a few hours;
our street became a river!
got a text from city hall

O’ how I wish I could retire
Before all my dreams expire
My traveling feet are on fire
To explore the world I admire
I’d go to Paris for a day

A raven cawed
Fear struck my heart
Chills quickly engulfed me
All so unexplainably
It seems so odd

Early, I awakened this morning
To watch the sun rise from the sea
As always, this amazing feeling
Exhilaration, as my spirit flies f
FA

Love comes not from a vacuum
It appears not from thinnest air
Love does not suddenly bloom
It requires nourishment and care…
Love begins with admiration

A pale gold light in the far horiz
As morning shadows retreated quick
Vanishing totally with the midday
But then, shadows reappeared slowl
Cloaking all things before day is

the pitter-patter of the rain
lulled him into deep sleep
dreams, the gods did ordain
he didn’t even count sheep!
and he saw her in a dream

I’ve got a splinter in my lil fing
So I’ll need a needle to take it
A sharp samurai ain’t worth a ding
Unless my finger, I can do withou
But should one night, I meet a ni

thoughts he expressed
not in four words, but two
he eats just once a day
so, he’d cook just once too
at most two of everything he’d own