Shared love and burdens are scattered embracing all who enter. Separate thoughts and cares change perspectives connect all who enter. Shared hopes and visions shape our future form all who enter. Separate ideals and values value-added dreams build our home.

Marriage Prompt   I Chose You Today I Chose You Along The Way I Chose You Forever

The meandering rivulets forming the stream of my consciousness belies the constraints of time “Turn in your quiz!” The smooth feel of the purple printed paper scented with the toxins and addictive taste of the ditto copy machine, clicking each paper that steals my time….

Your blue-tinted needles poked my curiosity. How did you sprout in this terrain? In this drought? In this time of fires running wild? How did you stretch so high and wide in this environment? In this era of distrust? In this time of turmoil? Your…

Forty Four (Inspired by and to the tune of Barrett’s Pivateers by Stan Rogers  url) How I wish I was in Halifax now I’ve taken forty four turns around the sun Yet, I’m not sure what I have truly done The spark has gone, there’s…

I am not here, I do not sit noiselessly And contemplate life Surrounded by rounded walls I do not live in this modern house Or in a cabin in the woods. I am not in the homeless shelter I am not the vagabond under the…

Twenty little poetry projects Is the prompt for hour three With images and metaphors This prompt is not for me Twenty lines that contradict The lines that came before One with “slang you’ve never heard of” Another showing less is more I sat and stared…

In ten years, these steps I fear will be paths I have walked. I have dreams and my fears triple every one of them but someday, probably in yen years, I’ll overcome them to create new ones In ten years, I would love a partner…

“Lately I’ve been finding a lot of inspiration in the work of others. Often when I read a poem, there will be a line (or 5) that sounds spectacular and presents a really interesting idea, but then doesn’t explore it.”   When they talk about…

Seems Life Provides Incomplete Umbrellas With Broken handles to to “Handle Life” in the Storms of the Certainties of Uncertainty   Seems Life Provides Shadows of Ladders Arising from the Blank Abundance of Nothingness