When you ask me if you will be happy, my son, I say yes because that is how I want you to be, but I look at the world and I remain awake although I hide my fear. Life is hard I warn you, but if...

White House Rose Garden
by Peter Menkin

We the people dream
you live sometime in rest
visiting the rose garden
at the White House, Mr. President,
...

TEMPLES- My Human Light, the look in your eyes, when they seen mine, shined so much light into a happy sy, like the promise of God My Human Light, you took my heart, then...

How strong it is, this feeling of regret, You long to see the lands and loves you've known. (For Eden's flowers fade if you forget) In dreams you may return, but wake alone. Yes, now I know...

   I learned this ballad in my youth.    Perhaps the tale will bring you joy.    Our elders tell our people of The Fall of Troy.    Great Hektor was a Trojan prince.    'Twixt Greece...

I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray. When I look behind, as I am compelled to...