I am thrilled to announce that I have been
            nominated with the entry of this poem
                        As "Poet of the Year"
            "International Open Poetry Contest"
       Awards will be presented in Washington DC
           by the "International Society of Poets"
                           August 23,  2002
   We have all known the lonely hours of night

    when the shadows whisper of other times.

       Clouds slip past the moon as you stand

                   looking out the widow

        thinking of someone distant from you.



    This magic time in the early hour of night

           can bring back memories of that

                           "Only One"

                you could not live without.

        The one that  made your sigh or sing.



   But you know that love is gone forever now

    and can never return for their time in this

      world has come to an end with the soft

                     " Winds Of Time."