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.
The Hunger for Peace
“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 [...]
What Would Peace Look Like?
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 [...]
Because I Can
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 [...]
With Thoughts of You
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 [...]
The Mists of Pokhara
"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 [...]
The Plains of Solitaire
"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 [...]