a storm that walked on legs of lightning, dragging its shaggy belly over the fields.

There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup.

Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address.

The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful.

There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come about during the process of writing.

All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child.

I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a lot of old men and women who talked as if they were paying Western Union by the word.

Turtle has just one plan at a time, and every cell buys into it.

This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness.

When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.

I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

Let the Sun Shining in our Brain Storm to Happiness

In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church - but not studied.

Your mind will never lose anything forever that's worth keeping.

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

In my breaking through...I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature...for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same.

A lot of times, when you start a show at a young age, you get stuck. You get six years of high school, but I didn't have that.

God gets you to the plate, but once you're there you're on your own.