Sittin’ here tonight By the fire light It reminds me I already have More than I should Well, it wasn’t by the fire light, it was at an intersection by…
A Requiem for Summer (original song lyrics) Carried by the breeze, hidden in the shade, I’ve unearthed the summer glow, a game that I once played. Time failed to find…
When I was in high school, I loved poetry. Poems covered my two closet doors in my bedroom, and I loved to read and write poems. Of the few things…
Without her, he didn’t know what to do. So he boarded a cruise ship and sailed away. His heart was broken. It wasn’t her fault. It was life. Or fate.…
Every morning, he made two smoothies: one for her and one for himself. One summer day, he put a flower on top, and from then on, it became the bit…
She took a bite then her mind floated away. It went to a giant backyard, big enough to host a soccer game for her brother’s team. It went to the…
The weekend came to a close. Excitement dimmed as she rose higher into the evening sky, and her heart sank like the setting sun outside the tiny airplane window. Her…
My tiny patent leather shoes made clicking sounds on the black-and-white tiled floor. Chairs with plastic-covered cushioned seats and silver wire backs filled the room, and the whole place smelled…
People flooded her sightline. That pesky moon just wouldn’t move. It was ruining the picture. Just when she thought she’d gotten the perfect picture, another tourist yapping in some foreign…
It had been twenty years since she left. She looked out at the buildings, those like any other city’s downtown. But she saw trips to the stadium and block parties…
I closed my eyes last night, and a brightly-colored picture appeared. I sit nervously in the front seat of that red Datsun. My hand holds the door handle, then my…
Today I wish I only had sixteen years rattling inside me like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box. If I was only sixteen, I’d still have hope, that youthful hope…