Member of The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers & The Songwriters Guild of America

Member of Nashville Songwriters Association International & Tennessee Songwriters Association International

1996 & 1997 International Society of Poets "International Poet of Merit" Award Winner & "Poet of the Year" Nominee

Elected by the Board of Directors of The National Library of Poetry to The International Poetry Hall of Fame (1997)

Here is the hour

We've waited for

Close friends at our invitation

Are joined once more

In this moment

Where we've begun

As love brings us together

Together… as one

This time beginning

Will find no end

I stand in anticipation

To take your hand

From this moment

For all yet to come

As love brings us together

Together… as one

I ask you for your promise

Throughout the years until…

"My darling… will you love me true?"…

With tears of joy

You say

"I will!"

Thrill and emotion

Now fill my cup

With friends and felicitations

I lift it up

To this moment

And what we have done

As love brings us together

Together… as one

As love brings us together

Together…

As one