The subject of the poem usually dictates the rhythm or the rhyme and its form. Sometimes, when you finish the poem and you think the poem is finished, the poem says, "You're not finished with me yet," and you have to go back and revise, and you may have another poem altogether. It has its own life to live.

There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends

Hope does not take away your problems. It can lift you above them.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Success is loving life and daring to live it.

A mother's love liberates.

It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.