This forthcoming book is  filled with poems to help celebrate life.  It’s filled with poems for parents, poems for young adults, poems for reflection, poems for . . . well it’s filled with poems that range from poetic taste treats like this haiku:

Season Shift

Crisp air makes breath show.
Bear begins to hibernate.
Fall into winter.

to humorous tidbits like this:

Help It’s Spreading

Help, It’s S-p-rea-d-i-n-g
The clutter.
Help, It’s S p r e a ding!
The c l
ut
t
er
It’s spread beyond the office
C lothes on the sofa.
Papers too.
Piles on the entertainment center.
The bedroom is starting to feel stale.
Dishes are in the sink.
Not many. … Some.
They’ll be more
Unless I take action.
I’ve been O v E r LOADED.
Said, “I’ll get to it.”
Now, I’m paying the price.
Nothing feels good.
I enjoy a clean house.

Don’t necessarily like to do it.
Guess it’s time
To straighten things up
Get that fresh smell back.
Into this house and
Into my life.

to poems that examine some of life’s most meaningful issues, like

A Gaia Life Connection

We meld, exchange philosophy
This venerable being and me
Placing my hands on the sequoia,
I feel
the vitality of its life pulse
the presence of inner peace
it’s willingness to help heal me—offered without request
Wisdom. Thousands of years of wisdom.
I offer
an image of myself
whatever it wants from me

. . . to see the rest of this poem, and others, download a draft edition.