I love words!  I have been writing poetry and short stories for many years for personal use and as gifts and have finally decided that it might be FUN to share some of these with a larger audience.  My purpose for listing on EBAY is to see if there is interest in the poetry I have written and to perhaps cause someone else to smile.  I don't plan on getting rich from selling these items but I will certainly gain great pleasure if others enjoy my humble creations.  (I promise not to complain if I do make a little extra cash while doing it!) {grin}  I am a married working mother of two and I intend to list various items in my limited spare time as prototypes for a possible future project.  With this in mind, the starting bids for my auction items will be very low and in most cases will not cover the cost of the materials that were used to create them.  If you enjoy what you have received please SHARE IT and give me the credit.  If you are not pleased with your purchase you will hopefully not be out an exorbitant amount of money.  The Copyright is MINE (I have paid the $30) and although I don't mind sharing I will pursue use of my work for profit without my permission.  I welcome your honest appraisal but please try to be kind. {smile}  I value my feedback rating and will do everything in my power within reason to keep my customers happy so please email me if anything is not to your satisfaction.  Thank you for taking the time out of YOUR busy day to read this.  Remember "Today is the first day of the rest of your life"...  ENJOY IT!   

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
      -- Author: Abbie Hoffman

To see a world in a grain of sand
And Heaven in a Wild Flower;
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
and Eternity in an hour.  Wm Blake

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Unknown

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. Groucho Marx

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Horae quidem cedunt et dies et menses et anni nec praeteritum tempus umquam revertitur. The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns. Cicero

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Finds us further than to-day. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. H. G. Wells

Yesterday is HISTORY
Tomorrow is a MYSTERY
Today is a GIFT
That's why it's called the 'PRESENT'  Unknown

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln

The world is new each morning -- that is God's gift, and a man should believe he is reborn each day. Israel Ben Eliezer

Look to this day for it is life,
the very life of life...
For yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision.
But today, well lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a dream of hope. Sanskrit Proverb

Tomorrow I will live, the fool does say; Today itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday. Martial (c. 66 A.D.) Epigrams