I started writing back in December 2001 and have traveled some distance since then. This site includes just a few of my poems/ballads I've written over last 5 years or so. Some were featured in my first book "The Old Man Said", which is available at Amazon.
I also compose some of my songs and have done some collaboratory work with some mates, which are under the Music page. Feel welcome to provide your comments or criticism.Many years ago when I was fourteen I fell in love with a sweet seventeen And yes, I knew she’d be the one The light of my life that I’d never seen The way our love was, seems just like a tale Where the waves, they soar, while lovers sail On the ship of dreams [...]
Shadows of my past still follow me around Each time I return to this old town It seems they will stay forever and ever Till the moon’s up above and skies fall down I’ve traveled far in this life that I’ve known Been to the mountains, but never felt alone For I always knew she’d [...]
Things that make us laugh, things that make us cry Watch the river turning, watch that eagle fly So I sing for you and here’s the reason why Memories live forever, these things can never die Dreams that paint a picture, dreams that make us sway Through the shades of seasons, oh from night till [...]
Lost his farm and family in Fall of ‘forty one And he never knew he’d be on the run Holding to his heart all he ever had Searching for a place, oh under the sun Stuck there on the highway in the summer rain Longing for the faces he wouldn’t see again He cried out [...]
They live in the city with neon lights Where folks, they just don’t sleep at night Back on the farm where things are quiet Lord, us country boys, we do all right We can go on bailing hay all day long Humming to the tune of an old song And when the day is done, [...]
Snow on the ground and gray everywhere The wolf stood still by the ragged old lair Waiting for a call he knew, would come So he kept staring at the sky with a prayer As sun went down in the wide old west The pink twilight kissed the sky so blue Oh the quiet of [...]
It’s hard for me to say things you don’t know But I love you all the same like I did long ago And I wonder as I stare at the moon so blue If you ever sing an old tune that we knew Though it’s just a wish, I couldn’t give you more Just a [...]
Drapes in my room cast a shadow so deep Like the clouds so gray high up in the sky Like the way at night she used to weep When I’d say, ‘Love, it’s time to say goodbye’ Then she’d stand still with tears in her eyes As sad as an oak when the lone bird [...]
The curtain came down when the play was done I found her alone beneath the summer sun As I sat back by the shade of an oak I knew inside that she was the one And I held her close to my heart so deep Till the stars up above all sang their rhyme In [...]
He sits all alone from night till dawn With his worn out clothes and same old song And you’ll find him there when the night’s long gone Still lost in her love with no place to belong So I asked him tonight why he is so alone With eyes so lost and as dry as [...]
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