These Pages fill my thoughts in rhyme,
My memories and hopes combined.
They've touched on love and pain and joy
And comedy that I've employed.
So if you dare to take a chance
To read them through or give a glance;
I'm warning you if what you seek
Is hidden meaning - I'm not that deep.

Don't look for free verse, it isn't there
And to the Greats I don't compare;
For I'm not inclined to see myself
In the shoes of someone else.
These simply are my words in verse,
Some for better, some for worse;
Yet if by chance they touch your heart
I'll consider them my greatest art.

© Leslie Montgomery