It's Closing Time on yet another year
And an Old Friend is thinking of one without peer
With hopes that this pen somehow Finds A Way
To convey all the joy I wish for your Birthday

From your Spiral Pages comes such poetry
That seeing your posts gives morning, glory
My mental ground fog disappears without trace
For opening your work brings a sudden grace

To the dullest of days - I click and into my hand
Pours the heart and soul of a Utility Man
Each word is a Gift, so It Puzzles Me
How you can doubt you're best in this Family

Sharing a Tangerine and your Orange County Snow
You color our world with A Personal Rainbow
Then say you write of Just Ordinary Things
Yes - like Stars In The Grass, moonbow and starsing

I hope you continue to write without pause
I Will Be There, waiting for your work Because
I find Everything I Came For in your every line
Ed, As a person and poet, you're finer than fine!

...and I am thankful

Happy Birthday, my friend... May it be the best ever!!