Sitting

What makes a true American…American? The need to sit and do nothing Sit and chill Netflix and chill But, why? Why is it okay to do nothing When you stand for nothing, you fall for anything We fall for anything We let the media feed…

I See You (For My Riska) – Poem 4/24

One moonless starry night When millions of sparkling diamonds Lay strewn across a black velvet sky I walked in a grove of whispering Oaks When suddenly I saw a wounded Star:   I picked you up and dusted you off And nurtured you back to…

rude awakening

walking alone to the bar you thought I wouldn’t know you thought almost most things could slip past by me but I had your heart i knew it before you’d make sense of its unrest you’d send a video you’d send an audio sample you’d…

5 A Brave Front

I’m trying to maintain a brave front. But continuous pummeling, left and right, will leave anyone with a dampened spirit, downtrodden at that. There’s a heaviness I can’t explain, darkened clouds hovering a silent howling. The better part of me keeps on reminding me, this…

Itching

One July day Karen and I took a walk in the woods. Summer friends since our days as kindergarteners a decade before, things had changed. Karen had changed. Sister of my best friend David, her tomboy ways with fishing poles and bait, canoes, axes and…

Placed

you may find me off balance and STILL, still I place myself in familiar and STILL, still I place myself in unfamiliar and STILL, still I am placed

10am

the world whispers “run, or you may break,” but broken you may rise, fly, fall….

Still Living

Don’t think of him as gone away His journey’s just begun Life holds so many facets This Earth is only one Just think of him as resting From the sorrows and the tears In a place of warmth and comfort Where there are no days…

Dreams

I dream of all that I could be Of the life that I could live If only it could be real for me Oh what I wouldn’t give It comes to me in visions And wisps of imagination I see now more clearly I am…

Sparing

Be sparing with your offering.. don’t cast pearls before swine… Imagine a pig in pearls, sloshing in the mud completely unaware how long it took for that oyster to manifest just one bead? I have cast plenty of pearls… One bead at a time… scattered them…