Poets often say what I’m thinking. Sometimes it is I, sometimes it is someone else.

• My Treasure
• Ugly Morning
• Shadow of Love (For My Granddaughter)
• A Mother’s Day Message from Praise Doute
• A Visit from Minerva (Children Learn What They Live)
  “Bayou Folks” (Joshua Wichterich)
  “The Second Coming” (Yeats) and “Present Tense” (Vedder)
  Closer to the Heart (by Neil Peart and Peter Talbot)
  Socks Meet the Bubbleheads in San Diego (“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost)
  Socks Ponder Minneapolis (“Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley)
  In Memory of a Kid (“Dirge Without Music” by Edna St. Vincent Millay)
  One Yellow Leaf Outside the Window
  “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer
  Winter Light
  Snow on the Bayou
  Crepuscule
  Summer Lightning
  Drifting Thoughts on the Mississippi
  Spring Cathedral
  April Fool’s the Fireplace
  Ode to My Spoons
  A View of the Rain from the Front Porch
  Sparta, Louisiana – Where Nowhere Is Here Now
• Summer Leaves Fall (“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost)
  “The Raindrops on Your Old Tin Hat” by John Hunter Wickersham
  Green and Brown
  Meet Doute – Friend and Togolese Poet
  “In Flanders Field” by John McCrae
  Tree Stump
  It Snowed Today in Paris
  Warm Winter Trees