Poetry (love poems)

NOTE: Some of these poems were originally published in the books KAIROS, SELECTED POEMS, and 10 LOVE POEMS, which contain additional poems not found on this list. Click here for information about these books, and here for digital/ebook versions.

2012: Moonshadow (The Bright Light Café, May 21, 2012)
2012: The Key to a Woman's Heart is Within the Man (The Bright Light Café, May 15, 2012)
2012: Love and Words (The Bright Light Café, April 12, 2012)
2012: I Love You (Love Life Poems, March 2012) Selected for Best of Web category
2012: Could You Stay the Night, Forever? (The Bright Light Café, March 11, 2012)
2012: About Love (The Bright Light Café, February 13, 2012)
2012: Heart-shaped Cocoon (Long Story Short, February 2012)
2012: Fresh Morning (The Bright Light Café, February 2, 2012)
2012: Morning Rain (Chantarelle's Notebook, Issue #26) Featured Poet
2012: These Things (Nomad's Choir, Winter 2012 issue)
2012: I Love You (The Bright Light Café, January 23, 2012)
2012: Morning Rain (The Bright Light Café, January 2, 2012)

2011: These Things (The Bright Light Café, December 16, 2011)

2011: Though Unseen, Her Soul is Lucid (The Bright Light Café, December 15, 2011)

2011: Fresh Morning (Wavelengths: 2011 Savant Anthology of Poetry) Buy at Amazon or Savant Books

2011: Morning Rain (Wavelengths: 2011 Savant Anthology of Poetry) Buy at Amazon or Savant Books

2011: Morning Rain (Distilled Lives - The Illinois State Poetry Society 20th Anniversary Anthology) Buy at Amazon or Infinity Publishing

2011: Holding Hands (Anthology: Speaking of Love - Positive and Uplifting Short Stories and Poems about Romance, Marriage and True Love) Buy at Amazon or Bright Light Multimedia; also available: Amazon Kindle Edition

2011: subtlety (Long Story Short, May 2011)

2011: Words Are All I Have (Daily Love, December 9, 2011)

2011: Outside, the Silent Garden (Daily Love, December 3, 2011)

2011: Only A Dream? (Daily Love, November 23, 2011)

2011: Heart-shaped Cocoon (Daily Love, November 5, 2011)

2011: A Moment is Riding Time (Daily Love, October 28, 2011)

2011: Moonshadow (Daily Love, October 24, 2011)

2010: Could You Stay the Night, Forever? (Love's Chance Magazine, Summer 2010) Buy from Suzerain Enterprises

2010: Morning Rain (River Poets Journal, Summer 2010, Volume 4, Issue 3; PDF)

2010: Love and Words (The DuPage Valley Review 2010) FREE print copy of the magazine here

2010: I Love You (Daily Love, June 25, 2010)

2010: Though Unseen, Her Soul Is Lucid (Daily Love, July 2, 2010)

2010: When I Am Loved By You (Daily Love, July 5, 2010)

2010: Love Will Glue These Br-oken Pi-ece-s (Daily Love, July 10, 2010)

2010: The Existence of You (Daily Love, July 17, 2010)

2010: About Love (Daily Love, July 20, 2010)

2010: Holding Hands (a simple pleasure) (The Bright Light Café, September 2010)

2010: Shadows Falling From the Heart (Ancient Heart Magazine; September 11, 2010)

2010: Could You Stay the Night Forever? (joyful!, December 2010)

2010: Morning Rain (The Shine Journal, November 2010)

2010: Beneath the Waves (Daily Love, December 15, 2010)

2010: Sentimental Blue (Daily Love, December 18, 2010)

2010: The Key to a Woman’s Heart is Within the Man (Daily Love, December 25, 2010)

2010: To You (Daily Love, December 31, 2010)

2010: Morning Rain (Prairie Light Review, Fall 2010; print and PDF versions)

2009: Love and Words (Love's Chance Magazine, Fall/Winter 2009) Buy from Suzerain Enterprises

2009: These Things (The DuPage Valley Review, 2009 issue) FREE print copy of the magazine here

2009: These Things (Ancient Heart Magazine, October 30, 2009)

2009: Winterbloom (A Prairie Journal, Fall-Winter 2009)

2008: Fresh Morning (Write On!! Poetry Magazette, January 2008)

2008: Could You Stay the Night, Forever? (chicagopoetry.com, CRAM Volume 1)

2008: Love and Words (Kane County Chronicle, April 15, 2008)

2008: What We Are (Kane County Chronicle, publication date unknown)

2008: Holding Hands (a simple pleasure) (Kane County Chronicle, August 2, 2008)

2008: Fresh Morning (Poet's Haven)

2008: Shadows Falling from the Heart (Kane County Chronicle, October 25, 2008)

2007: Could You Stay the Night, Forever? (Long Story Short, Spring 2007)

2007: These Things (Kane County Chronicle, May 12, 2007)

2006: Love and Words (American Open Mike: The New American Voice #1; book/online)

2006: Could You Stay the Night, Forever? (Kane County Chronicle, August 5, 2006)

2006: Could You Stay the Night, Forever? (Arts Beat/Fox Valley Arts Council, Winter 2006-2007)

2004: The Key to a Woman's Heart is Within the Man (Skyline Magazine, March-April 2004, Spring Edition)

2004: Fresh Morning (Londonart.co.uk, the art of love anthology, Feb. 2004; online only)

2004: Love Will Glue These Br-oken Pi-ece-s (Londonart.co.uk, the art of love anthology, Feb. 2004; online only)

2004: The Existence of You (Londonart.co.uk, the art of love anthology, Feb. 2004; online only)

2004: About Love (Londonart.co.uk, the art of love anthology, Feb. 2004; book/online) Buy book at LondonArt

2004: The Key to a Woman's Heart is Within the Man (Londonart.co.uk, the art of love anthology; book/online) Buy book at LondonArt

2004: Fresh Morning (Kane County Chronicle, June 5, 2004)

2004: Sentimental Blue (Kane County Chronicle, August 28, 2004)

2004: Moonshadow (Kane County Chronicle, publication date unknown)

2003: Fresh Morning (Love's Chance Magazine, Winter 2003-2004) Buy from Suzerain Enterprises

2002: Fresh Morning (The Pink Chameleon, Issue 3)

2000: Fresh Morning (Best of the 5th Annual Skyway Writers Festival, Finalist: Poetry)