Fighting this Feeling

I’ve been fighting this feeling This feeling I have for you A feeling I love and hate at the same time I’ve been fighting day in and day out How could it be this feeling is of need A need to have you A need…

Life’s Like That

One day you rule, fly high The next day you fall, deep When you’re high, enjoy the ride When you fall, get up quick Don’t wallow in the highs or the lows Nothing lasts forever It shouldn’t When the end comes and it will What…

The Spirit Summons

The gong summons at twilight It pounds the heart of village Masters It is a call to the palace The crown walks It walks to spits from spirit That, Ears Shall tingle to vigilance The tiger roars in vain The ant Captures the earth with…

EVERGREENS IN JANUARY

As I push back the curtains, the shrubbery below the frosty window, in it’s evergreen style – with it’s small prickly green foliage, home to bagworms during summer, nestling pockets of snow now, in the glimmering cold sunshine of a mid January day in central…

ONE

If I were cement and shadows I could not know enough to be ready for such news — the letter in her loopy script her cheer and sweet affection sliced through by death — where-were-you-when, we ask, the moment’s film a looping strip, that heartbeat…

the first hour, a marathon

tell me a story, yours I want to tell you mine   let’s start at the beginnings that point where we are indistinguishable from each other that point, one where we begin to untangle unravel like a braid someone’s laundry clothesline someone’s fishing line a…

Summation of All Things

Don’t you feel it within That life is coming to its end Increasing number of murders And Natural cause deaths Nature is at its wits-end The wind doesn’t linger as it did before It’s rushing because it knows the time is short The waves move…

homecoming

Incomparable, unmatched free from attachments ; connected by sun and moon and heart beats of all that exist having waited since beginningless time no more waiting now for blessings and gifts , homecoming close; I am home no begining no end.

A Distinct Perception

It’s easy, isn’t it? Taking that bullet was easy for you? Leaving me behind, out of the blue. Even if it was to save my life, To protect our children, you, my wife Have left the world so much sooner than I I don’t think…