By Cheryl Cermak Santa married the woman at the zoo two weeks later. Together they devised a plan to save the deer. Mr. and Mrs. Claus abducted them from the zoo. To get away from the law they moved way up north to build a barn, well warehouse, where he would manufacture toys to distribute. … [Read more…]
By John McCutcheon (Submitted by Doug Berg) Editors note: The following are the verses from a song by John McCutcheon. I felt they could stand alone as a story/poem. The story is true. The commanding officer of the British forces was court-martialed for “consorting with the enemy” and sentenced to death. Only a pardon by … [Read more…]
By Jamie O’Day You have fallen to your knees face to facewith death, under the shadows of thefallen towering trees waiting to be consumed and swept awayby the breeze far beyond the bearing street lightsout of touch and out of sight you hear an echo calling out your nametelling you that nothing can ever be … [Read more…]
(This poem was tacked on B.J.’s bulletin board. It reflects his philosophy of life.) I may never see tomorrow; there is nowritten guarantee.And things that happened yesterdaybelong to history.I cannot predict the future, and I cannotchange the past.I have just the present moment, I musttreat it as my last.I must use this moment wisely, for … [Read more…]
By Cheryl Cermak The painted sun is set behind thisvolcanic eruption once freshThe wind is wrapping its warm breezearound megently the boat is rockingon soft quartz blue watercalming me from this afternoon stormclouds are my comfortalways therealways the same soft mountainous massspread across a shield of color
By Jessica Turner My heart aches,It throbs with a passionbeing swept into a tornadowhile the eye is so powerfulfor that is where I sit- I shed a tear for the wilting flowermy hands become callusedto feed the needy mouthsmy lips are no longer moistfor I am the one to always listen
By Leah Shoberg Love is the passionate and abiding desire on the part of two or more people to produce together conditions under which each can be, and spontaneously express their real self. To produce together an intellectual soil and an emotional climate in which each can flourish, far superior to what either could achieve … [Read more…]
By Leah Shoberg Speech may sometimes do harm but so may silence, and a worse harm at that. No insult ever caused so deep a wound as a tenderness expected, and withheld; and no spoken indescretion was ever so bitterly regretted as the word that one did not speak.
By Sam Maeder In a pit of myown despair, darkenssfills the land, withall my strength I runto hide from myfears brought backto haunt me fromdeep within. Obstacleafter obstacle I try toovercome, now mystrength is gone.I stay and facethem and replay themin my mind finallyI wake up, and thedream begins again.
By Shaun Johnson He stumbled down the sidewalk of the clearly worn down city street, with a guitar in hand, and wore a distinctive smell of cigarettes and cheap wine. He was an African male about 5′ 7″ in height, and almost skeletal from no food. The man ran his hand through his thinning hair, … [Read more…]