My brother replanted a perennial from our parent’s garden three years ago to his own flower bed. It never bloomed for those three years.My father passed away last Monday, on Tuesday morning there was a brilliant orange flower on this plant. His funeral was Thursday. That afternoon while we were gathered in the yard all [...]
Holding hands with my mother fading embers in my father’s eyes become a flicker once more. Few words spoken they would be superfluous. Wordless dialogue but heartfelt exchange echoes through this chamber at the threshold of his exit door. Fifty-four years traversing, journeying together, spawning profound understandings of complex and deep simplicity. [...]
I’d be lying if I saidI have never…speculated in my heartwhat “us” might look likeyearned to be the target foryour hunger’s arrowpondered freefallinginto your liquid pools of lovewondered what it might feel liketo hold your affectionate handimagined profound kisses stirring deeplyin places seldom seenfantasized of whispers …softly moaning in my eardreamed of someplace newwhere merging [...]
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead" ~Oscar Wilde Don’t like tomatoes,she offered,never have;strange that,he repliedas he casually tumbled into hersky blue eyes.Thinly disguised intentionstelegraphed across the table;sliding an olive to the side,and with Retsina on her tongueshe inhales him in one glance.Chronologically distantbut hearts [...]
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls” ~Joseph Campbell Her name, the same as yoursfloods my cellophane heartwith distant but still pulsating memories of you.The perfect professional’s wifechildren and social engagements,appearances to maintaina busy life,at times frenetic,hamster wheel personified.Requirements for comfort where lines between want and needare blurred;with the [...]
"Two souls but with a single thought, two hearts that beat as one" ~John KeatsI am the humming bird,You are the flowerin this perfumed garden of devotional delights.You are the valleywhere I am the hills,in this verdant landscape void of boundaries.I am the candleYou are the flame,in the benediction of our sacred shadows.You are the Banyan [...]
“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility” ~ Paulo Coelho Feed your lust upon my bodyshe moaned,but leave my soul aloneI cannot givewhat I haven’t got.Do not fall in love with me,she wailedin her impassioned plea,ascetic meyou knew this from the start.I crave no one, I am a stone,a fortressin [...]
"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in" ~Morrie Schwartz Somewhere between dairy and produceyou discovered the freshness of desire;after the Brie and before the cilantro,you felt the stirring.You weren’t looking, but still you saw…that glance,lasting one nano-second too longto qualify for casual acceptance.Between [...]
"If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come"~ Chinese Proverb A Tsunami of heavy humid air washes its welcome over meas I step from the plane onto the searing tarmac.Welcome back to Cayman,allure of the azure deep,that which first delivered me to her shores.Bazillion Caribbean starscaressed by jasmine flavoured breezes;Seven Mile [...]
Pinholes in this blue-black dome dazzle my senses,while this ever present clammy cloak weighs heavy on my skin.Iguanas and other denizens of the dark... foraging while the island sleeps.Piercing the still of nightroosters crow,because they can.Meanwhile mymeandering stream of thoughtssurrender to gravity's force,finding my lowest valley.And how shall I succeed in love?Its convoluted and errant path leads me [...]