My mind is awake while the world is asleep. I watch the sun set and the sky darken. My mood set with it. Yesterday I was strong. Today I am tired. I’ve been through so much and I’m not even that old. Poems struggle…

smooth and shiny white blue pebbles lie strewn on the shore after the storm that uprooted their strong and firm roots with force the Banyan tree that crashed through the roof and burnt the car   after the storm that made them hunt for their…

IX. The Mullen is tall, delphinium in bloom, Echinacia about to flower and the Hummingbird shuns the feeder for authentic nectar.   Busy summer garden days interrupted to sit and watch Bird joy, stillness, mediative.   Out of myself and what has to be done,…

Social media is manna from cyber-heaven, crystalizing the adage ‘thank G-d for unanswered prayers’ A daily spin through various forms of online socializing covers a wide range of connections; business, personal old friends, new associates, friends-of-friends, old lovers Those you have joined in moving back…

My brain is squishy. Words aren’t coming to me. I’ve lost my talent. I feel abandoned and the empty feeling only grows. Where are you, my muse? I call out again and again until my voice is hoarse. Come home and awaken my soul.

I. Bird looking listening from the bird tree near the porch this perfect Vermont morning   Raven husky caulk and croon floats across dew cloaked meadows drowning soft Chickadee hum and flutter.   Bold Jay stomps and caws tilting his head to eye the peanut…

VIII. Such a marvel I think as I observe these tiny feathered beings flit and hum.   Hummingbirds fly hundreds of miles in a day and weigh less than a nickel – I have read.   But I know that what it is like to hold…

Hi It has been a while Cliché but it’s all I have forty years is a long time I don’t know what to say I don’t know why I’m writing I don’t know why you care I know you want to know why I know…

Not down and not out Mingus bass thumping heartbeat Never underdog   Liberation soup Spicy sax and a fight on Your hands Mingus style   Tried to keep you poor I’ll be a Haitian with you Your fight is my fight   Bum bump a…

Dear mummy It’s been sixteen years with out you I miss you each day as if think of the lovely times I wish you were here to see how far I have come The memories of your laughter i hold on to Your personality i…