Poetry, storytelling and song writing are members of the same family. I have a deep appreciation for the literary arts and believe that creative writing whatever its form, render a fleeting glimpse, a snippet of insight into the author’s inner world. To live an unexamined life is our greatest travesty and consequently we cannot grow as we are intended to without putting ourselves under a compassionate lens of scrutiny. Writing can do this by giving us a strategy to crystallize those fleeting thoughts and emotions that so often elude clarity and self knowing. Journaling, writing poetry can be a catharsis in this process leading to a new awareness of whom and what we are, warts and all. The journey of self discovery ultimately opens the door to the spiritual growth and evolution we so richly deserve.
Give it up for Happiness
Give it up for happiness; give up your need to be right.How does being right change your world other than feeding your ravenous and insatiable ego which gorges itself at the trough of righteousness? It’s not wrong to have an ego, [...]
Diesel Engines and Cheesecakes
"Never shall I forget the days I spent with you . Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours." -Ludwig Van Beethoven She made it to these shores like so many of us,running to,running from. Looking for answers,that [...]
In the Palm of My Hand
I’ve got rainbows in my pocketI hear laughter in the breeze,I feel sunshine on my shouldersI see smiles upon the seas,and the living is easyI am so into you.You are Sambucca in my coffeefrom a dark Italian roast,sourdough straight from [...]
I Still Remember…
"Stay close to anything that makes you glad to be alive"~HafizI still remember whenthe sound of you calling me Daddywas the sweetest melodyI had ever heard.Bringing light into darknessyour beautiful innocenceshone like a beaconin a midnight storm.You graduated from tricycleto [...]
Faith Reconciled
“To stay with a broken heart, a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge;that is the path of true awakening”~Pema ChodronBehind this veillay all things possible,yet all things past.Shattered innocence personified,refusing to believea broken wing cannot [...]
Pocket Full of Buddhas
"Exhale, exhale fully. Emptiness begets fullness" My story is meI’m true to my storyveracity personified.not for public consumption,there is intimacy…and there islascivious lustingfor lurid details.Ask me aboutthe miles on my heart,the centuries on my soul,feel my painmy searing pleasureand all [...]