Author name: Dan Swanson

We need not repeat the ventriloquist’s voice. We don’t have to dance to the puppeteer’s strings. We’re all on this […]

You can’t lament that life’s too fast if you sat still while it rushed past.

I like to think old souls are shared and each rebirth is death repaired.

Fear is hardwired and hope is ingrained; our choices determine which one is sustained.

I pray for better days ahead but pine for what we’ve lost. I feel there’s time to bridge our gaps

Compassion from a distance may seem abstract, but it’s real. We need not see a person’s face to know the

Some people scorn on immigrants. I wish that they’d just can it. The truth is we’re all neighbors, and it’s

Do not despair and do not despise; When life knocks you down, just rise.

Absence of kinetic motion leaves us frozen in our fate. So, get up and build momentum toward a future you

I like poems that have no purpose other than they make me smile. I think rhymes can work, sometimes, to