Happiness is when you find some rice in the rice bin you thought was empty and you know you’re all right for another month Happiness is...

On this day, the sun Appeared – no, not slowly over the horizon – But right in the city square. A blast of dazzle poured over, Not from...

A pair of feet, born so nimble, Whirl around like the wind. A soft scent wafts from the hem of her clothes; Love blossoms all over the...

It’s my lunch hour, so I go for a walk among the hum-colored cabs. First, down the sidewalk where laborers feed their dirty glistening...

He was first seen in a Louisiana bayou, Playing chess with an intellecual lobster, They burned his linoleum house alive And sent him off...

I wish them cramps. I wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no 7-11. I wish them one week early and wearing a white...

Apathy is ascribed to the modest man, Fraud to the devout, Hypocrisy to the pure, Cruelty to the hero, Hostility to the anchorite,...

I think a man’s seventy years are few! Of his hundred years’ allotted span, Thirty are lost. Of his seventy years, Ten are spent as a...

Slender grasses, A breeze on the riverbank, The tall mast Of my boat alone in the night. Stars hang All across a vast plain. The moon...

Let me make the songs for the people, Songs for the old and young; Songs that stir like a battle-cry Wherever they are sung. Not for the...

And a youth said, Speak to us of Friendship. And he answered,  saying: Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow...

Part I Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures; 47 black faces my father, mother, grandmothers (1 dead), grandfathers (both dead),...

Over the Dragon Rock the moon appears. How can I bear to watch her beauty rise Where stars are like ten thousand tears? Where is Prince...

Most high, all powerful, good Lord To You be praised, glory and honor And all blessing. To You, Most High, do they belong, And no one is...

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Madeline Stark (1893-1993) Ms. Stark...

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows your strengths; Feels your fears but fortifies your faith; Sees your anxieties but frees...

We often pass a night warm and intimate In an unfamiliar room whose shape In the daytime we have no way to know, Let alone its past, its...

In the train I read poetry: Rendra and Mayakovsky Yet the words I hear are yours Above the rhythm of the wheels. I look outside:...

I am convinced that if God had intended for woman to be trampled upon, He would have taken a bone from the foot of man to make her. If he...

The path I walk was made for me with grains of faith for sand…. Because of those who paved the way – I am free to walk this land. The man...