Category Modern Life

Chances We Take

Lotto, street crossings or driving at speed Chances taken for what we think we need Neither going faster, slower or in between I cannot express exactly what that means We should choose to travel deeper inside To determine all the places where we hide Frightening, yet more rewarding than lotto Still some get stoned, spend […]

Be

The wonders Of museums Uninitiated cannot Understand Dark night Illuminated Life filled A mother’s love An old woman’s Quiet moment Patient, meditative Reflection Snow-covered land Weary rest Looking within To see the future What she hopes She will see Husband or child Gone Ahead, before Not yet returned From day’s labors Night carousing Lonely watch […]

Cannot Imagine

Have you this modern truth brought home Your devices, machines, smarter than you With all their various prompts and screens Your car and phone communicate; so new New to me; I’m old, adult before this time My first job, each file kept on paper alone Eight jobs in, till a mainframe I must climb Punch […]

Neck Deep in the Big Bloody

OR What It’s Not About (Warning: This piece runs over 3,700 words. If you do not feel you can read it all, I urge you to read as much as you can, plus the intro and conclusions.) I’m finding it difficult to wrap my head around the insanity I see on the news and in […]

Happy New Year

My final painting of 2015 11 x 14 Oil on Cradled Birch Rembrandt in the Raw (Ground pigment in a Netherlands’windmill) Happy New Year to everyone in the world. May the most we hope for, be the least that we receive. Art will be added to Fine Art America in 2016

Overrun by Barbarians

My mind has been ground down into mush Constipated thought, no matter how I push As obfuscation, trivia and drivel dribble out Any wise words of mine, missing in action That said, I’ll fight to drivel and dribble on Mayhap a turd of wisdom will squeeze out Flow from this fickle pen, held in my […]

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 […]