Love Is Like A Flower

Love Is Like A Flower Love is like a flower, beautiful and bold, If this love is not nourished, it can be hard to hold. Love like a flower, grows in the same way, It blossoms and changes with each passing day. Love is the tiny seeds that grows in our heart, Hoping this love…

The Red Apron: PERFECTLY PERFECT MARGARITA

  HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO EVERYONE!!!! It’s Cinco de Mayo, a Mexican celebration and commemoration of pushing Napoleon out of Mexico. A slight breeze tickles the green, orange and white fringe strung over the plaza. Vendors are setting up their booths: BBQ brisket burritos, smoked turkey legs, quesadillas, pork rinds”¦. No vegans are in sight…

Orchids of Mayon Volcano

A Wild Orchid  We are all flowers in the garden of the world. Some of us are daisys dainty and bright. Some of us are poppys,with sweet contagious laughter. If there was a flower for you, Youd be a wild orchid, So full of life,colors alive, Sprinkled with scarlett and purple, Explosions of colors racing…

Serenity Poem

Serenity “The woods are lovely, dark and deep But I have promises to keep And miles to go before I sleep And miles to go before I sleep.” – Robert Frost (1874 – 1963), U.S. poet SERENITY (Mt. Apo*, Davao, Philippines, 1979) entranced by solace of the mountain, lulled by verdant trees of tranquil twigs, i sense…

Will you hear the call

Will you hear the call and pick up your drum, or will you settle back into the easy chair of your old life, content just looking out the window? Get up and walk outside into the grass. Leave behind the porch of this life, the house of the ego. Call to the spirits; call loudly…

Missing you

Mother; your sweet voice haunts my mind. I see your face in my dreams at night, Your visit is always sweet and kind. Although you are not with us at this time I feel your energy; A warmth like sunshine. I remember how you gave your motherly advice And your casual conversation was always nice….

Life is Mostly Quiet

Life is Mostly Quiet Believe me, you don’t have to know. Not so much that you render yourself helpless. Helpless in the face of what Life brings next. So make peace with knowing very little. About Love. About Others. About how life should be. Make amends with how things are. Not knowing a thing, walk…

Still I Rise

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like…

The Will To Win

The Will To Win If you want a thing bad enough To go out and fight for it, Work day and night for it, Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it If only desire of it Makes you quite mad enough Never to tire of it, Makes you hold all…