dc 1971
First taste of snow in Washington, DC 1971 Thanksgiving Day. 575-77 single line plus couplet.
Extravagances Kitschiness Can’t wait to own the latest upgra… Of the iPad everybody says was gr… Buy one smartphone get two free
Heart Eternal To You I Give The red striped white heart with r… To you I give The Hallmark Valentines fold out…
a labor of love all we want to lead happy lives —a state of well—being physically mentally is there a fountainhead?
Mahal Ka Namin we love you It was so brief a Meeting nothing told me A first and last day
Eternity Songs of Cicadas Life the path to death Mortal beings eternal souls Death the path to life
Skyscrapers No one to turn to except me, no wa… Out Jersey barrier arrows down pi… My right shoulder in dissent out c… Liberty on left across New York…
Day Off I will do the dishes I will set the table Cook your favorite dishes Carnation bouquet and lace
Poetic License Ah... Uh... Ah Single word stanzas four lines qua… To free verse to metered sonnets r… Haiku seventeen decima eight rhyme…
More than a bushel and a peck Mother’s month the merry Bright flowers of May Blossoming night and day A gift divine not a time ordinary
April Thaw Spring Sun Funny again you begin to smile and… Baby talk to yourself clearly you… The flowers are saying hello to yo…
cupid and the worm robin food in beak to couple hungry nestlings singing songs of love early bird gets the worm been
Braided Roses Not the three red roses you once h… Nor the Chinese French menu We foolishly read aloud accented In the lift alone the two of us.
Laugh with you again Daylight weakening Now twilight the day flickers And dims to darkness On everything that has been
pathic pidity rain rain come again every day been a while since a gloomy dark s… dropped a bucket of cloud water in this ne…
Argo Tau Alpha The Argonauts joined Sailed the high seas to Colchis On the ship Argo In search for the Golden Fleece