In The SpotLyght Feature Magazine

By Roland E. Williams Who knows the words in the poems of a poet Better than the man who put himself to do it? My poems are like children...

By Roland E. Williams With joy I announce my aptitude To sadly renounce my solitude As I kindly pronounce my rectitude Of having dealt...

By Roland E. Williams The nights of old will remember me For I have left them a long sad legacy At times they were my sole companions The...

By Roland E. Williams I still at times long to hold and caress your beauty Although time, and your many lovers, have diminished that But...

By Roland E.  Williams The boy who looked out at The Great Salt Pond And at the hills that surround it on most sides Also to the sea to...

By Roland E. Williams My old master took me down this road He said, “My boy, let me explain who you are” He took a shard of glass that...

By Roland E. Williams Which poet created the weather? Cumulus and nimbus So poetic like Stratus and cirrus He was one sweet rhymer That...

By Roland E. Williams I know now that I once knew him They told me all about what he’d done And all that had been done to him I got it...

By Roland E. Williams My children have come to visit you Their names? Jean, Marie and petite Pierre They do not know you If they had,...

By Roland E. Williams The blind, the deaf, the mute, and the crippled, they never let go of us nor do we of them. They leave us...

By Roland E. Williams The empty space beside me on the bed Is filled with an image I see of you there It is my sole consolation all these...

By Roland E. Williams The imprint you’ve made remains For it is not merely an impression It resides within every part of me My heart and...

By Roland E. Williams As if set on a goal I thought couldn’t happen anymore Not now, not this lifetime, not that lucky It must have shot...

By Roland E. Williams Does one’s birth allow another’s death? Or Does one’s death allow another’s birth? Were humans created so that sin...

By Roland E. Williams Put your trust in the palm of my hand And you can be certain it will never be broken Rest your worried head on my...

By Roland E. Williams Sweet dreams wished -way too often- None willing, to make them so The dreams of lovers -no more- Once life has...

By Roland E. Williams I have been missed Where I stood waiting Fifteen minutes for a bus By the ant who wallowed in my shade Awakened by...

By Roland E. Williams I know that I was wrong To have done what I did I would do it different now If I had that chance again My reasons...

By Roland E. Williams I handed you over to them, didn’t I? Like Ioudas, that traitor I figured it was the thing to do Now it’s too late...

By Roland E. Williams How often I played your song Soon I had made it also mine I could never wish for a better one And how often I...