To call the writing of this book a labor of love would be an understatement. On the one hand it has been a fulfilling occupation, perhaps secretive in its own way, while on the other it has brought unequal measures of joy, ecstasy, and despair to its creator - all components of love as we think about it. Anyway the ultimate pleasure has been fully realized and hopefully will be passed on to the reader. Time, as it now appears, will tell! Noticeable throughout is that each poem, or tale, is comprised of four, six-line, (heroic) verses utilizing rhyming couplets. No variation in a total of exactly one hundred can be found - or even exists for that matter. As for the subject material it would seem to be best described in the very first poem entitled, of course, Timeless Tales. Any further description or commentary appears unnecessary except to say, from the heart, that a hope for greater illumination rests within the pages which follow. From primacy to the present era is the all-encompassing background that reaches beyond this earth to the outer regions of the universe - if not always in fact then in fantasy and wherever the poetic instincts should lead which, in the end, is surely the best we can do.