This poem tells about the unity of love fellow creatures of the earth.

For Amy Lynn Watkins.

Ancient history.

For Theodora Kimmel

Ariel: Do you love me, Master? No?
Prospero: Dearly, my delicate Ariel.
– William Shakespeare, "The Tempest" (4.1.48-49)

A simple incantation to summon a terrific storm when you like.

The music of nature.

I always felt that the character of Miranda in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” had something missing. She is “to be admired” but she never seems to do all that much, or indeed think all that much.

For Christina Martinez.
Written: May 2008.

Written: July 2007.

We only live once and therefore we ought to live it to the best that we can. like time it flies so fast and before we know it, it is already twilight. it signals the end of the day. Tomorrow is another time…. man is like that, at an early age, most of his life is wasted only to find out it is too late for him to recover the lost time….