I have added  a selection of my newest poetry. Click on the red link below  and it will take you to a set of 12 new poems. For a sample, I have included “Super Moon” on this page.

I hope you enjoy them. As always, your feedback is always welcome.

Poetry: Chapter Five 

Super Moon

This night the moon demands attention,

now closer to us than any other time.

This gift happens twice a year they say,

Outshining the stars, more mysterious than the sun,

Suspended over Mt. Rainer like a halo–

It draws our eyes and we yearn.

Upon its arrival –babies are born,

while oceans pour over dry roads.

How many surprises have I missed, lost to concern?

How many ruby-red sunsets or violet bursting sun rises?

How many clapping thunderclouds with their displays of intense delight

have gone unnoticed as I fret

over this spot on my shirt.

See the old couple

walking into church hand in hand,

refusing to let go for the entire hour.

Now a tiny infant smiles

at each face with equanimity.

Here two girls on a park bench giggle

at something known only to them.

A young mother sits shoulder to shoulder

with her daughter, and helps her with her homework,

Smiling patiently, believing in her.

A caregiver sits silent on the bed

next to the old man wracked with pain.

An athlete falls back in the race

to run with a lone red-faced boy

As they cross the finish line together.

At the city pool a teenager with a deformed face

is embraced by his little sister and they smile.

Each super moon carries its own wonder

Showering the world in its own silver glow.