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 Lesson is Equanimity
Distance makes the heart grow fonder...that may work for Hallmarkbut darlin’ it’s not working here.But still, a thought worth believingand that I did for quite some time.I tried to tell you many times,standing at the bridge match in hand,and let love’s [...]
The Wait
Invisible threads are the strongest ties. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche Sometimes love is justa four-letter worduntil it reaches inclutching your desirelike a tiny bird, its heart poundingheld captive by loving hands.Friday night,am missing you already.yes, we said slow downI heard it, I said it,but [...]
Poetic Wanking
inebriated with the stimulation ofhis own verbosityhe masturbatesfor all the world to seehis wordsoozing unfulfilled potentialsplattered on crumpled paperor a screenas it werethe penhis phallic pridehis weapon of voicewielded with all the ferocityhis empty soul can deliverdrained yet un-satedhis mind [...]
Traces of Love
"Hearts live by being wounded" ~Oscar Wilde You are the vapor trailsengraved upon the blue vastness of my vacant heart.Traces of lonely spirits,searching soulsconvergingif onlyfor mere moments.From zero to heaven in four ‘o seven,under a full moon over Sunset House,from Amsterdam [...]
Your Touch Lingers
Take a moment to notice when you're happy, and then tell yourself "if this isn't nice, I don’t know what is." ~ Kurt Vonnegut Like heat seeking missilesthe words you spoke found my mind.softly...I close my eyeshands touchingever so lightly,with humble respect,electric nevertheless.Luscious [...]
Java Junctures
“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” ~Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)Laptops and folderslitter this makeshift officeof chic and hipat the caffeine catalyst café.The Guatemalan roast wafts through the air,with java toasts to anotherconsummated deal.Lovers in bloomembrace their [...]