I mages I have taken either with a camera or with my cellphone.

Scribbles are my writing Scratches are my sketches Shutters are my photos * please note some photos are stock

Blooms Fade Pink edged petals ripple coyly stark white beauty Spring violently blows tearing away Magnolias failingly fragile in the breeze Littering deepening green grass Carpeting fragrance of li…

Time to check in with reality The often unpaid or accepted bill Who wishes to face this head on? Awareness of missteps that enlarge In hindsight with guilt and remorse While our triumphs began to d…

Trembling in the hope of rejoiceful reciprocation

We are rarely given enough time Time to see the sights and hear the sounds Time to touch, feel, and smell The sound of your child’s laughter on Christmas morning The sound of footfalls tiptoeing qu…

Enfant Gentle one lying in my armsYour eyes and smileExamples of sweet charms How I wish that some wayI could shelter you from all harm I long to cradle youAll your lifeBut if I truly love youI can…

I dreamed again of you and cherry blossoms Springtime in Japan the air so heavy with the scent Wafting across avenues and gardens A perfume of priceless memory lingering Our hands clasped as we wal…

Challenges are sandpaper Refines my spirit

You desire? Then embrace Passion’s fire

When the bricks began to be thrown through Mosques, I remember I had to re-evaluate my own prejudices from growing up in an isolated mostly white society and choose to follow that path or to walk a…

Hot Cocoa and Firelight Snow falling outside

Hearing carols in my head Smell the pine of the tree

“Does she not exist in all women? Who blossom into beauty… Awakened with love’s first kiss?” I feel as if I am stripped Bare of leaves and fragrance Dormant against winter&#…

My angel of the night On swift wings come for me Are you dressed with the form of man? Here to bleed my soul into eternity? Or with feathered wings of white? My angel of the night Come swiftly then…

Teasing terrors fray the broken Heart of my promised dreams The difference of a fantasy Between bitter reality it seems Safety cannot be found in others Imperfect unaware expectations Love cannot b…

I want someone to hold me I want someone to tease me Let me laugh and smile again

Embers here remainPassion’s flameCharred and scarredBetrayal of lustSeduction’s gameLove no chanceForbidden fruits givenSpoiled and rottenDriven into the dustIniquities denTattered bits…

Years ago I met a kindred soulMy heart fell without consent of my headFor a lover in a marriage bedHe offered compassion in a world I had noneHe offered laughter in a world I was shunnedWe talked o…

Brothers Grimm indeed Readers under lamplight Glasses perched