Tag: poems

I put my hand on her shoulder. What if she really doesn’t need me as much as I think she does? She continues washing without looking at me. She was here long before me and hopefully long after I’m gone, I continue to myself. I walk away and continue about…

The last of 25 is gone now, the time for 26 is here. The year of the lock-in and quantum leaps. A new hope has arrived, old friends are back and finally working synergistically. The fire is burning now, no longer just embers. Carpe Diem is here…

There are billions of us on our planet, but only a handful, maybe only one other, who cares whether we wake up in the morning or die in a car accident; Whether we made it to our destination, and the time they should expect our return to share a warm…

Old man’s birthday, would be 75 today. Wish I could sing him Happy Birthday how we used to around the round table with the cake, candles, and ice-cream. Watch a movie in the small living room next to the laundry, but now I live in the times I write about…

We were already in the Shire all along. We were already in the Samurai village Algren went back to. Life was already the best it could have ever been. Right there and nowhere else.

Bugs and critters again, full moon, partially clear skies under a streetlight. I used to dream about getting on a rocket ship to sail the night sky amongst the stars, but it is pleasant enough to look at the night sky from down here in the mountains. One of the…

I want to hike up the mountain in the dead of the misty fog and find you there amongst the trees and the dirt road close to the tower. Way up there, find you close to the sky where you really are. Where you really are is always in my…

I stare at the monumental task that stands before me, looking at me from above, from below, from right to left. I don’t have the proper tools to get this done in a reasonable time, so I stand there with a torch and scraper. Fingers raw with so much peeling…

If individuals blunder, society is no different. It blunders en masse, but what can one do? For one is locked in this system with few, if any alternatives but to integrate oneself. Integrate and play the system from within until a better way comes along. Change is always around the…

And there it came, the moment, the opportunity I had been waiting for, the change needed. Unexpected, out of the blue, not thinking about it. That is how and when God operates. It is He, it is the Cosmos that have written everything down in the Book of Destiny, buried…