My poems are oftentimes born from some great sadness. They usually speak of things that have been lost. They try to catch the soul and trap the memory - To tell the story...true...and - what - the cost. I rhyme because it helps me to remember I rhyme so I must measure every word. I rhyme to help those lost things live forever. In rhyming, lilting, steeped-in-meaning verse. Words can prevail past flesh or thoughts or empires, And words can make souls live beyond the grave. So Man will ever know the wonder of them - The courage that they showed...the joy they gave.