The Phoenix has a multitude of phases and paths Throughout it’s journey it was will rise and fall like humans The most beautifully chaotic phase is during the death and rebirth cycle. You see after it’s burnt itself into ashes It’s renewed into a much…

If you want to be rich Don’t gamble If that is your wish Don’t grumble   You may win a hand Once in a while It is not a rule But you may try   The other day The other man won a lottery His…

Ambient temperature on planet earth produces clouds that raise the dew point. Scientifically this is the gist of a cloud, yet I see a cloud as a cotton ball unfurled and unencumbered resembling cotton candy undyed, bleached white sometimes in the hue of gray like…

This prompt has steps, and you have to do them in order. Don’t look ahead to the next step before completing the previous one. 1. Grab a book off a shelf at random. 2. Read the first line of the book and the last line…

Before this land was settled. I wandered free. I worked the land. I spoke the language of trees and flowers.   Before there was greed there was gratitude. Before there was judgment there was grace.   Harmony and peace were twinned constants, and there was…

You take me by the hand  and lead me to the moon There we ride low to high and loop de loop Through the crowds, you’re by my side I never have to worry We take our time,  there is no rush We let the…

There’s a better place than here, I said. It’s at least twelve times prettier, And it has twelve days in every week. There are twelve rainbows after every storm Instead of, maybe, only three. The hourglasses are twelve hours long, I reminded him, Just like…

Visiting RoseAnn in the land of In-between Simultaneously sweet and strange Overstuffed furniture, afghans, Comfortable and cheery. Her eldest, widowed son’s home.   90-year-old Rose outlived sisters, brothers, her only daughter, and one of her sons. Her home with too many steps and too much…

If I could reach the land untouched by man and unkissed by human feet If I could touch time and hold it in my hands and turn it back If I could place the world on my shoulders and move the pieces forward as I…

Into Japan I’d like to roam amidst cherry blossoms’ sweet perfume konnichiwa as I kowtow when meeting those in kimono at giant red torii respectfully gaze and simple Buddhist shrines amaze its food, my favorite sushi bites red and orange, black and white the shodo,…