The beauty I see spans ugly things and lies, so many lies. I’m trying to be observant. I’m trying to learn lessons. I’m trying to be a role model for people who don’t wear bows and have to purge what has         …

The world is full of music. The music of the heart It sounds with each beat. The rhythm of life it steadily keeps. A heart of music; a melody blend. The pulse of each vein that mixes  with time and breath.   tap, tap, tap…

I hear the children playing in the summer heat, families cooking in the kitchen, and water cooling the thirsty plants of the earth. The purest expressions of life, yet in this same space silence, outrage, and hatred flow freely. Domestic terrorist protected under the same…

Fresh greens Sprouting so tenderly Inching their way from underneath the ground Oppositions of earth and grime Stand not in their way For the greens must out, come To beautify and nourish To make healthy To give life

Rambling in an unfamiliar wood, I happened upon a young man sitting at a piano.   He did not look up as I approached. He did not speak in response to my greeting.   He was not real, or at least not alive.   He…

Son, Don’t ask me why I’m clad And the rest are bare. I have seen two worlds. Two life times. I saw the sun. Humans caressed the sun before it scalded them. I cover my body with leaves and reeds Because before me a lifetime…

We’ve never bought a goat, at least not for us. We did buy a goat, once, or maybe twice or thrice, as part of a holiday donation, although we neither met the goat nor the family for whom it was bought. We bought a family…

We still  remember the day we met It’s not one to ever forget It was in winter among the wilting flowers For us to love you, took barely any hours   You gave us memories that will stay with us forever You initiated a bond…

There’s a chicken named after me Not the kind that you will ever eat The kind that will cluck around and lay eggs when she feels like it Did you know that chickens can live up to 20 years? I’ve heard that my chicken grew…

2003: Sitting on laminate benches trading gushers for gummy bears I declared, “I’m going to live for another one hundred years.” You claimed one hundred and one; You always did need to be better than me, but neither of us could picture life in 2103….