What is a rainbow but a colored arch, With dreams at each end to wish for. Seven hues and shades from a color chart, Just one of many beauties from nature’s store. Each rainbow the same made from the grandest plan, Arching high and far in colored rows. Like a fireworks show or a peacock’s fan, Our hearts are filled with the awe it bestows. Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and...

My place is filled with happy things, It’s where I keep thoughts and wishes. Norman Rockwell scenes and summer nights, A place I seek for the safety it brings. In my place all things are alive and well, Like Wally and Ward and June Cleaver, And they really did Leave It To Beaver. Even the TV ads back then had good stuff to sell. Remember Alka Seltzer and Brylcream for your hair? Ice cold Kool-ade on a hot summer day? Swee...

I go to a therapist once a month. When people hear that there is such a strange connotation that gets attached to it. "Now, there’s a guy who must have some major issues." Whatever could they be? Addictions? Fetishes? Anger? Obsessions? Some or all of them if I had to come up with a checklist. I’m an imperfect vessel. A plane that won’t fly. A ship that won’t float. At least I have to convince my therapist of that or else...

I find myself looking in the mirror more often lately. Not in some vain way but more of a retrospective review of how far I’ve come. It used to be I would look just to see how hot I was before I head off into the night with all of a young man’s fantasies and hopes. Now I look just to take stock of a lifetime of wrinkles and scars that have replaced those fantasies and hopes. I wonder silently at the prospect of that one d...

Here and there and everywhere, A thousand thoughts invade my mind. Some are private but most are shared, As each one is released there are many more behind. I wonder at so many things, In awe of simple life. What’s with spider webs and Saturn’s rings, And why is there a ‘k’ in knife? Who’s to say the long necked giraffe, Is weirder than the horse. I only know that one makes me laugh, And the other lets me ride it of cours...

Just sixteen, her birthday had, Her friends all gathered around. Gifts she got from mom and dad, Were most special to be found. A ring, a pearl, and her first car, Then friends gave her even more. Prom queen and cheerleader she was a star, What else could she possibly ask for? In school the cliques kept others apart, The haves and have-nots were seen. She knew it was wrong and pained her heart, Bur that’s the way it has a...

On feet of cat silent at night, These thoughts of mine escape the light. Moments remembered of distant youth, Bliss and sadness entwined in truth. A boy so young and searching for love, Her eyes found his like a light from above. The days and nights he spent loving her, He thought she loved him but now not so sure. True love doesn’t stop by closing a door, It ebbs and it fades while searching for more. Memories remain onl...

At 10 your life begins and you don’t seem to have a care. You soar to heights with your first kiss and fly where eagles dare. Then you notice different friends who have so many curves and curls. And wonder at these thoughts you have about so many girls. At 20 just less than man and skilled in social arts. You work all day til the sun goes down and that’s when your life really starts. Like a cobra coiled you hunt your prey...

Where is this place where all my smiles have hidden? Where all my laughter is banished to a place forbidden. What is this loss I can’t quite name? Where all my days and nights look just the same. And what is this need that confuses me so? Wasn’t it her who said she must go? What of this hurt in my heart and my mind, Where anger dwelled and turned me so blind. What is this ache I feel so way deep inside? In my chest so hea...

Hearts near through feelings shared, Voices silent but our minds held our hearts. For hours and hours we often stared, Hoping soon that our love would start. A love so pure and a bond so strong, We knew it was meant to be. But our love didn’t last so long, And someone else took you away from me. He was one and I was two, Your heart you had given away. And though I had loved only you, It wasn’t enough to hold you that day....

How easy it was for you to claim me. Your eyes snaring me. Holding me in your gaze. My will only to be with you. Just you. You gazed at me and my life ended as I knew it, And a new life began. More pain. More agony. More love than I had ever known. How could I hurt so much at the thought of you? And yet, Seek only your attention. Your approval of me. You made me want to be a better man for you. I tried. Yet was hopeless i...

A pane of glass, a window made, My world blossomed looking through. A thousand memories I wouldn’t trade, Looking out of it and discovering you. In my mind I knew our fate, This girl next door and me. I knew my heart was just too late, And it would never be. She held me captive with her eyes, Imprisoned by her smile. I tried to touch the golden prize, Yet missed her by the saddest mile. Like comets midst the stars above,...

If I write a story should it just be for me? Stored on a harddrive for no one to see? Called up and read by tapping some keys? Just another hidden file is all it will be. My friends said be brave I really should post. There are plenty of sites willing to host. Is my stuff good enough? Maybe? Almost? It’s better I think I stay just a ghost. I write for myself and the few friends I trust. Sometimes they’re good but more oft...

I waited for you my whole life, I would have waited for thousands of years more. How could I not? There is only one. Sure, there are many in-between, Countless thoughtless acts and random encounters. But always there was only you. The missing piece in my life. Did you know? That fractured forces in our lives would bring us together? I waited for you as each day rose and fell. As each endless night passed one grain of sand...

My head full of noises and nowhere to go, My heart full of feelings and no way to show; So I sit here alone in the dead of night, I close my eyes and begin to write.  Protected by my anonymousness, To all my sins I do confess; What need do I have to keep them hidden, In a cyber world where little is forbidden.  A simple man with keyboard in hand, My fingers type what my head and heart demand; Sometimes with song in glorio...