Thank you to Storm and her team at The Writers & Readers Magazine for publishing 4 of my poems today.  Here is one 
that I hope will inspire all of us to make lemonade while 
lemons are flying past our heads.

At the Very Edge of Courage

Develop the daring of a lion

and the intrepidity of an adventurer.

Create a reservoir of mettle and pluck.

Increase fortitude as you persevere

through the murkiest dark along 

any highway of people.

For who else should you depend on when things collapse?

How will you record your own history,

even as you walk into the present,

still unknown at that moment?

Run or be run over?  

We must speak of the third option:

stand strong and carry as much as you can

and lay out your energies for others’ sake.

Do all this while attaining your own ideal,

for the worst of humanity does not understand

that one must make a difference in a good way,

and the best are too busy loving others to judge.