"We're still in the game." If you haven't heard this then I know you haven't actually spent any considerable amount of time with my dad. It is a metaphor for...

I know you live here; I see your strange marks in the clay The place where you lay down is evident to me And as the deer panteth for the water So this stream...

A tale of tails, brooms that sweep at the sky, telling V’s or bronzed backs glimmering as they hump the surface of the water. Two young men lower a canoe fro...

Sometimes so much said so simply She smiled and so subtly reduced me Long lasting fits of her laughter Rob me of points I was after My stomach from giggling ...

There is only one Scale Lily, and that's me - Scale Lily It's moving day, and as I look around, I wonder, where did everybody go? I see my 11 year old daught...

I like to spend time on the tracks, looking for railroad artifacts Its the things that don't move out of the way That I come back to find the next day And th...

Oh my, another eagle, he's not as noble as you think I know he's really watching me, as he pretends to drink And so I leave this lake and head to yonder stre...

He lifted his hand, then brought it down - Slam I share a desk with him, the boy who sounds like bam And so I try to concentrate, but it isn't my forte I rea...

I went looking for the adopted son of Sanford A ginger headed, African type lizard At the old abandoned bank where he thrived I found nothing, had any of the...

Pay attention young larvae, the Water Beetle said Because nymphs that don't listen, will all end up dead There is danger in the water and danger overhead Wat...

We came to get berries, we came to make pie But the girls got scared of the rumbling sky Too many distractions, but you won't hear me cry We're about to get ...

I watched a Swallow-tail Kite one day, diving at something far away Far away for these old eyes, so I moved in closer, like a spy And oh my word, its dragonf...

Thank you mom, for the things you taught me about God and His creation. I still share these things with my kids, and I remember all the snakes, frogs, cuts a...

"I won't let her win the war..." "Oh, look at that log,' she said. 'Let's walk across it and see the other side." "No,' her little sister cried. 'There's sna...

People are strange; they say something looks evil, but what's Satanic about this gecko What's so dark about a walking, breathing, dragon of a leaf; I don't k...

It was suppose to be a happy day, a day that only happens once in a life time for each year in its own time. This would be the 11th birthday of my eldest, my...

"Dad, why does the Easter bunny lay eggs?" He doesn't, your mom sets them out. "Mommy lays eggs?" No, the chickens lay the eggs, mommy buys them from the sto...

Like we were going to swim in here anyway, but we came down here to see And there was no gator; I guess it wasn't meant to be We found one man eater hiding, ...

So you don't believe in fairies; I thought I didn't too But there she was to my surprise and with purple wings she flew Right past my yard, then through my h...

I asked the tortoise how he came to afford beach front real-estate. He said, "It was simple; I did not ask for much, and I built my own home. I learned to ea...