Tag Archives: everything
My Friend
Begin at the beginning or just before Do you have any idea where that might be? Bring light into all the dark places Will you open your heart to light the world? Moonlight and starlight are the same Will you breathe deeply, without restraint? The beginning of all, everything starts at the end Will you […]
One Step
I walked to a park in a neighborhood I was familiar to me, but not my own. The world had impinged upon me, darkened my mood and I had allowed it to do so. Watching a local sports team I loosely follow, I began feeling defeated. Not only were they losing, but also playing poorly. […]
So They Post
Everything you are about to hear or read is true Whether the stories are about me or about you How should we tell these stories so they are real And, not some huckster’s wild and fanciful spiel I believe we must always trust ourselves, our gut I think most folk are happy where they are, […]
What are We Supposed to Do?
Prejudice, religious and racial intolerance, terrorism, murder, war and greed are said to have existed almost from the moment Homo sapiens first walked upright. Territorial imperatives and tribalism came to exist and I’m sure disputes sometimes arose between neighboring groups. Yet land was plentiful and early hominids could find more distant areas to forage and […]
Vision
Viewing life through my own glass Either magnifying or reducing lens My inner prism, no form, no mass Lighting my inner prison to cleanse Other views or other ethics learned May inform process, but not control Inner truth never hidden or spurned This lens my vision to expose, extol You may not understand my vision […]
Winter Wind Blows
Sometimes it is so simple to feel depressed Just maintaining an even keel a big success Bleak views of our ills constantly accessed Slip into a tortoise shell, hide in that recess I am run down, tired of facing terror, fear In the world and what is happening here Clamor for us to find a […]
Take Your Chances
So you pays your money and you takes your chance That is something I have been told, though not read Along the way you may learn the steps to the dance Hope you will master them, before you end up dead Many cute descriptions, we use to describe our lives A dance, a ride, a […]
Pandora’s Shadow
I A shadow box. I convinced myself that’s what she said Far past exhausted, neither wanted to talk nor to listen You know that’s not what I said. Please, use your head I just cannot understand, like you’re explaining fission You know what I said and you know just what I meant I said quite […]
Large and Small
Whenever I’m in the massive complex city I always feel like I’m only itty bitty Yet, when into the vast countryside I charge My lungs expand and I feel large
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