Poem describing a long dirt road. The road signifies a simpler way of life that has been chosen instead of a fast-paced life in the city.

More haiku from my ever growing collection of haiku.

Memories of winter on the farm.

Another haiku from my collection.

Sidney Lanier (1842-81), himself a distinguished flutist, was also a creator of music in poetry. Only the first two and last stanzas of the poem are reproduced here owing to length. See how he does it through poetic devices. The analysis at the foot of the poem may help you.

A poem describing my best friend when I was a child which was a beagle called Lassie.

This poem is about the differences I saw from the time of my first visit to Kauai in 2008, to my most recent one, earlier this year. Gone were miles of sugar cane fields. Left behind was fertile farmland just idly and wasting away and now left barren. Riding along the highway from Kauai’s west side to the island’s center of activity in Lihue, the idea of this poem, written as I imagine a local might perceive things, came into being.

A STORY THAT I WROTE FOR MY GRANDDAUGHTER AMABEL WHO LOVES GIRAFFES.

Nature poetry describing mountains and the beauty that surrounds them.

I think of The Abomination; he wants me to die but is not “man” enough to murder me so instead he pushes me towards suicide. “A Head Full of Color” all I have wanted was to add beauty and truth to the world but the world will only be painted after I’m gone.