Salvatore Buttaci > Writing | WritersCafe.org | The Online Writing Community

Vallejo, Peruvian poet of the early 20th Century, is a favorite of mine. Read him, won't you? His words dazzle and refuse to be so easily forgotten.

As a young boy, new to poetry, an adult told me people who liked to rhyme were either poets or schizophrenics. For years, I prayed I was a poet!

Rejected lovers sometimes go hogwild.

The candle serves as a good metaphor for life and love.

If only love always conquered, but there are those times when...

Thank God the snoring stops with that last breath! I'd hate to punish Sharon with a sleepless eternity!

If only we could discern the false from the true alarms of life. We'd live longer.

No matter what they say, life is easiest iest when we count to ten.