Category Modern Life

Night Watch

Written after attending a choral concert. Oh, let their voices fill me with their hope and love The melancholy, joy, hushed, rich full expectation Transported upon notes, sweets percussive chimes Sailing over sweet strings, wave break, wind-full sail Terra firma seen nowhere within our restless vision Must trust the melody and bass beam underpinning Unknown […]

Unexpected

Reflections Unsought Bright, Shining Stretched, moving Polished metal Surfaces, Wind on water Revealing, obscuring Rumors, Innuendos Truth and lies Shown forth Cast back Into our eyes Light echoes Reflect our Worlds, lives Incomprehensible Unexpected meaning

Myths and Stories

All our myths and stories Have roots deep in time Not all truth and glories Buds, weeds to sun climb

Remember Not

I remember When young One time When I lived In the moment Though not the moment The time itself Nor do I recollect The now When I became Self-reflected Imputing moments With meaning Without presence Revealing that In this world, now Communication requires Us to give up Our being, connection With our self Too great […]

From My Core

I once told people I had a dream But all I did was wish and scheme I did not get where I wanted to go Or figure out what I did not know When I dreamed, worked as well Soon on my dreams I didn’t dwell Knew what I hadn’t known before Share what life […]

May Well Find

If you can think You may well find Nothing on your mind Cannot stitch together Two thoughts equal aught You’d better take a sweater

Isn’t That Odd?

How then may I write? How can I stop Made for this time, now and none other To sharpen my razor on a broken strop World deep enough in drek to smother People who lead lie, serve their agenda Believe in their scriptures, not their god No choice, no one real, each a pretender Laws […]

An Immodest Proposal

Sadly, this will be the second time I will have posted this piece on this date, the third anniversary of the Newtown murders (the first to fall on a school day). Because many tragic deaths continue to occur, I  have vowed to mark this tragic date, in this manner, until such time as we come […]

Till Such Time

Fabled treasures are the purview of men Hearth, home, filling the hope of women Been told, but doesn’t mean it’s true then We heard this meme over and over again Terrified men work to return olden days After, oh so slowly, we changed our ways Realigned our shoulds, oughts and mays Until the time we […]

One-eyed Man

We are conditioned, convinced when we are but babes in arms Depends on the teacher to determine whether this helps, harms Despite where we live, we are persuaded to think as we are told In America, the United States of, we’re pressed into their mold Molded thus, in childhood, know we’ll have any life we […]