"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young." ~ Ben FranklinLove truly is such a universal languageis it not?That crazy, urgent,incessant, insatiable,feelingthat you want,no, crave...to connectwith that person,Even if you don’t knowwhat about;doesn’t matter,you just want to tap into their vibe,hang on to their inflectionslike orphaned morsels [...]
“There's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go” ~Jeffrey McDaniel And on those night-daze,when grappling demonsfrom blurred perceptionsto black horizon,When objectivityis a hypothetical conceptsucked into a vortexof self loathing,When despondent failurelurks ominously overheadlike foreshadowed conclusions of doom,When pathos paints and taintsevery invective,pummeling the writhing spiritof hubris conceded,When mental [...]
"That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful"~ Edgar Allan PoeSitting by the sleeping shoresimmersed in sacred musings.associations freed from prospects,the mind meanders playfullythrough the peaks and valleysof the profuse imagination.One hundred and eighty vista degreesof diamond studded oceanmakes [...]
“Exhale, exhale fully. Emptiness begets fullness”.A frozen pen,a vacant page,beseeching bona fide expression.In shrouded silencethe sacred heartfluent in loving awarenessyet lonely still;muted in self imposed exile,craving what it rejects,crying outin muffled longings.Torrent Caribbean windssweep me awayon the crest of a silvery moon.Distant voices in cadences long and slow,reverberating on and on,in harmony with bliss.An opus of understandingbeating to [...]
“With great power comes great responsibility”~Spiderman The acrid odor of fearpermeates the fragile fabric of silencethat shrouds this forsaken fortress,masquerading as native soil.The refugees of conflict,resigned to homeland horrors becomesheep aware of imminent slaughter, defeat and resignation personified.Politics in all its distorted permutations,like a lethal scythe,with indiscriminate precisionshears everything in its myopic path. Collateral damage [...]
It isn’t about peace or war? it’s about greedand manipulation.It isn’t about who started it,or who’s to blame,it’s about who resolves it.Fighting for Peace,the quintessential contradictionakin to fornicating for chastityIt isn’t about ideological differences,it’s about tolerance and understanding,or lack thereof.It isn’t about communism or capitalism,it’s about karmic correctness. It isn’t about supply crisis,to feed the [...]
Trades from the East speak to me,bending without mercysilver thatch palmsoutside my kitchen door.On this tempest SundayI’ll blade into resolute winds,to remind myself that I can,and I do. Zephyrs whisper in my ear,“dig deep, find strength”, my legs embrace the challenge,and I fly. Potent power stridesexpressions of fine will summonedpropel me headlong into gusty defiance;I am [...]
Your namenew and exoticcreeps upthe spiral staircaseleading to myloft of longing.Shrouds of mystery,a life, a worldof unknownslooms cautiouslyas fluffy cloudsin the besotted blue spring sky.A giftin magnificent,and sultry wrapping;contents yet to be defined,feeds the flamesof this prairie fire.I linger longerin streams of thoughtthat meander curiouslythrough fields of fantasylying in the hollow vastnessof my hungry heart.Desires armedwith unfaltering [...]
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need"~ Tao Te ChingSomewhere between simple and complexlies the meandering pathleading to the epicenter of every sentient being’s core.Journeys as old as timewithout beginnings,without endings,peaceful rivers flowing into eternity.A [...]
"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived,this is to have succeeded." ~ Ralph Waldo EmersonGeographically distant and yet still closeshe consumes him vicariouslythrough his verse.Her phone call spursa delicate dance betweenmore than friends…but less than lovers.Like honey drippingon a Kalahari daythis easy banter dissolvesinto an engaging waltz.Reminiscing about another time,another place, another poem,they stroke [...]