These pages contain my own original poetry. Most poems are written and copyrighted by me. Some poems are written by my grown children who own all rights to them. Please do not copy or add to collections of any kind without written permission. My poetry may not be great but it is mine. :o) Thanks.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T.S. Eliot ~ Dante

Poetry...is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal--which the reader recognizes as his own.
Salvatore Quasimodo ~ speech (1960)