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List: Wonder/Awe

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  • / / when I was a kid / and even a young man / I couldn't figure why / old people / made such a fuss / about scenery / / Now that I'm o
    66 words, 7 comments, on Jul 30 7:31 PM 2007
  • / / On the Sea of Wonder / the boat I row is small. / No sooner had I set sail / than I wished for landfall / but I won't head back to shore / / for now I'll drift - explore / feel the might of the swell / and the heave of my oar
    85 words, 13 comments, on Sep 3 6:10 PM 2007
  • / / / / / / / He looked at the moon and the stars / And he asked them for answers. / They shone back so steadily, silently / Looking
    56 words, 10 comments, on Sep 17 6:14 PM 2007
  • / / / Deep in the vaults of that great house / You could feel the weight. / Three hundred years of history, stone, and achievement / Resting on monolithic, granite foundation slabs - / Vaulted arches squatting low and strong / Above the
    277 words, 9 comments, on Sep 22 7:17 PM 2007
  • / / / the locomotive thundered / on tracks arrowing, / narrowing into the distance / never to meet / / but beneath the city street / a tube-train / straddled its rails / and electricity / arced / / silently it penetrated
    58 words, 7 comments, on Oct 1 4:42 PM 2007
  • 186 words, 3 comments, on Oct 28 4:49 PM 2007. In Adult
  • / Tumbled through the afternoons we opened to / the cool of evening's closings / / the small bars and restaurants oozed content / and ro
    86 words, 5 comments, on Nov 14 4:11 PM 2007
  • / / fog in fingers / tentacles twisting / lying low on land / whose peaks peek / / like a lovers hand / in the earth's hair / / dotted
    84 words, 8 comments, on Nov 27 12:02 PM 2007
  • If I could have held out just one more minute
    I would have seen him,
    maybe even gone for that sleigh-ride.
    234 words, 17 comments, on Dec 13 6:51 AM 2007. In Christmas Cheer
  • The / church / steeple stylus / Tracked a groove / In the turning sky, / Ringing the / symphony / of that / g
    94 words, 7 comments, on Feb 11 6:11 PM
  • 94 words, 6 comments, on Mar 19 8:09 AM. In Adult
  • 442 words, 2 comments, on Mar 23 4:45 PM. In Adult
  • / / / Dolphins / / / A dolphin show / ‘can we go, can we go!’ / I don’t know, son / / I don’t like zoos / / between my wife / a
    140 words, 1 comment, on Mar 31 5:33 PM
  • 92 words, 17 comments, on Jan 28 4:06 PM 2007
  • 229 words, 8 comments, on Mar 5 5:45 AM 2007
  • 206 words, 26 comments, on Mar 25 1:57 PM 2007
  • 69 words, 16 comments, on Oct 12 6:07 PM 2006
  • He loves words / words of love especially / for some words have weight / beyond mere meaning / they short / cut / straight / to feeling / / such words can be weapons / or balm- / call us to bed / or to war / calm us / or s
    81 words, 2 comments, on Oct 26 9:12 AM 2006
  • 79 words, 5 comments, on Apr 29 1:30 PM. In Adult, Life, Nature, Personal, Rhyme
  • / you are more / than sustenance / / you are more / than just dessert / / you are ethereal / intangible / elusive / / you are the ed
    168 words, 13 comments, on Jun 22 10:30 AM. In Spiritual, Thoughts, Personal, Love, Free verse

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