Dear Mama - ✌🏾Dear Mama, I hate that you can still reach me. Not with your hands those stopped knowing me years ago. Not with your voice I’ve learned how to let that pass through me like weather. But somehow against all reason against every boundary I built with b... See More »
Resilient DaffodilsA slow and sullen sadness Crawls in on palm and knee, A hollow hardened madness, Pursues me, steadily. Love lost from ages past-- Would that it would end; Haunts, and, will always last. Still, follows me, my friend. “Away!” I shout, with... See More »
The Milky WayIt took maybe 20 minutes, flowing from thought to thought to pen "the Milky Way," which is pretty quick, and it may show; but how I got to where I wanted, start to end, is more importantly what I want to share. Maybe not everything one sets out to... See More »
Blue, Blue MoonDear Moon, so self-centered, holding your breath in space; turning blue, like a spoiled child-- you'd do well in the human race. But I'd bet, were you here proud, bratty and unkempt, you'd change your tune at tax-time-- ‘cause no one here’s... See More »
A Kite in the WindFull leisurely you glide above As darkness fills the skies, You clear with wisps of sun and love, Being contrariwise. And offer truth—yourself; then move, Lost to all peering eyes. Your gift is lost, none give it note, Missing their due respect,... See More »
I Will WaitI await her return, The one who brings joy to my soul, With encouragement on her lips, Restoring reasons to live For what is true and good. How I look to her return! I have waited from before time, Before there was a before, And will look for her... See More »
Hope Like a Feather -a poemhope like a feather landed on the sidewalks' concrete a trod, a glance by some passerby hope like a feather that was once part of me parted with, don't need it anymore to fly what happens to feathers that land? one day they always just disappear... See More »