Father

On a Summer day when I was six, we took a little ride;
To a place they called “The Glass Barn”, on...

A man always clicked photos, wherever he went.
The desserts, the ocean and even above the horizon....

I write of the Father
I never have known
Who planted the seed
He never saw grown...

Sporatic in nature, a charismatic feature

In the attic a creature, not from
the past nor...

It was ten past four when you said you were going to die
The untreatable cancer and I started to...

Once lost, but never found
Sitting by the windows pane
Watching the old willow sway back and...

Today I turn eight
And I wish to see my mother
As I blow out the fire
On my cake...

In the Spring of 1963, my Father had an idea, he knew’d go far;
He thought what Dayton had need of...

I started building a rare coin collection, when I was just twelve years old;
Called a United States...

The gun in the drawer should have been on safety
It should have felt like protection.

The...

Back in the Fall of ‘64, Sunday, while watching the NFL;
I experienced a living nightmare, that was...

Inspired by Tony Taylor

They call it “The Windy City”, and it surely blows my mind;
I...

My dearly departed Father, today in nineteen-fifteen;
You were born in Philadelphia, the second son...

Boy in the 50s on a mission,
Always seemed be fishing.
Mama hard at work all day,
...

Child you tune ears toward me for answers
Yet you swallow my wisdom with a wicked tongue
Your...

"I'm planting seeds,
in everyone I meet,
for The Light of God and Jesus,
to lift them...

I wish she was stone cold sober
I wish she was a happy loving mother
I wish she was stone...