Table of Contents
Mothers, Fathers and Children 1
A Cradle of Arms 2
A Mother's Dream 3
Baby 4
Letting Go 5
Like You 6
Mom 7
The Tines of Fate 8
When Hearts Bespoke of Weariness 9
Nature 11
Bluebird 12
Mountain Magic 13
Pearl 14
Snow 15
Sunflower 16
Taken to the Sky 17
The Play 18
Life 19
A New Year 20
Choices 21
Clarity 22
Digs 23
Encumbered One 24
Life 25
Non Fatalism 26
Presently Here 27
Rejection 28
The Bump in the Road 29
The Gate 30
The Priority of Reason 31
Those Loving Hands 32
What Price 33
Words 34
Sorrow, Despair, Regret and Loss 35
A Sleepless Night 36
At What Point Will God Come in 37
Barely 38
Bridges Burned 39
Broken 40
Carnal Rampage 41
Ever Adrift 42
Goodbye 43
Haunted 44
How Long is too Long 46
I Use to Be 47
Losing Trust 48
Lost 49
My Heart in Knots 50
Nostalgia 51
Pompeii 52
Quick to Flee 53
Randy 54
Red Harvest Wine 55
Reliving the Past 56
Remembering 57
Run Through 58
Self Deception 59
Skeletons Were Meant to Lie 60
This Coffin 61
To Danger's Sudden Presence 62
Transitioning 63
Unmade 64
Upon the Shadow's Heel 65
Warring Love 66
When You Lose the One You Love 67
When Your World Comes Apart 68
You Aren't Here 69
Poetry 71
A Paradigm for Poetry 72
This Door Upon My Lips 73
Love and Hope 75
5th Avenue 76
Again 77
Ancient Wisdom 78
And Destined Ne'er to be Apart 79
As We Would Nestle In 80
Closest One 81
Fever 82
Find the Way to Love 83
First Love 84
Forever Yours 85
Going All the Way 86
Growing in our Garden 87
Lift High Your Hair 88
Locked in Love 89
Longing for the Evermore 90
Love Is 91
Morning Call 92
My Every Night 93
My Flower 94
My Quenchless Craving 95
Our Legend of Love 96
Our Walk 97
Still Fresh 98
Stolid in Stone Hearts 99
The Bastion of Myself 100
The Good Hurt 101
The Thread of Love 102
Time is Forever, When I'm in Your Eyes 103
Waiting on You 104
What Voice But Mine 105
What World Are You 106
Will Come Again No More 107
You Are Here and So Am I 108
You 109
Vanity 111
In Search of Yeats 112
Misdirection 113
My Gesture 114
Vanity 115
War 117
A Cry in Kuwait 118
Consumption 119
Dear Diary 120
Forever There 121
Home Again 122
How Sweet It Is 124
My Memorial Day 125
One if by Land 126
Our War Like Way 128
So White the Snow 129
St. Crispin's Day 130
Sunset 132
The Passage of William Owen 133
War's Tempest Past 134
When Thunder's Roll Returned 135
Religion 137
A Saint's Darkest Hour 138
Abraham 139
Ask God 140
Birds of Brown 141
By God's Grace 142
Chasing Jesus 143
Children of the Burning Bush 144
Dawn 145
Earth's Twin 146
Faith 147
Fallible 149
Heaven's Call 149
He's Right There 150
Holy Ground 151
Jericho 152
Judas 153
Know Yourself 154
Peter 155
Purgatory Road 156
The Birth 157
The Centurion 158
The Comforting of Saul 162
The Failing 163
The Stigma of Sin 164
Thrice 165
Through the Valley 166
Upon the Hill 167
Hate, Evil and Anger 169
A Mind in Doubt 170
An Offal Cuisine 171
Angry Need 172
Evil Uses, Abuses and Kills 173
Hold Back the Dark 174
Incessant 175
Psychosis 176
Simmering Innocence 177
The Chimney Tree 178
What Dark Unleashes 179
Shorts 181
A Silent Reflection 182
Another Day 182
Carrion's Creed 183
In Wet Seasons 183
Infinite Affinity 184
My Lady Love 184
No Blindfold Please 185
Rio 185
The Inevitable 186
The Wage of Vengeance 186
What We Are 187
Miscellaneous 189
Anxiety 190
Feud 191
Comes the End 192
It's a Tough Job, But Someone Has To Do It 193
Man in the Moon 194
My Mistress 195
Service Before Self 196
Sparing the King's Rod 197
Stew 198
The Eve of November 199
The Highwayman 200
The Legend Waits 201
The Night I Sang Dixie 202
The Reaper and the Reaped 203
The Reel of Time 204
The Skrimschawer 205
The Traveling Man 206
Time's First Step 207
Wheaton's Way 208
With Sand in My Hand 209
An Abbreviated Memoir of Trial and Tribulation 211
South of Heaven, North of Hell 212
