What Crosses My Mind

  • Lost In Love Together

    We would walk togetherMaybe holding hands,Or just side by sideIn our own thoughts,We would share together.Sometimes there is an envyWhen a couple strolls byEnjoying a sunsetWalking together.A certain sadnessComes with age whenWe measure out the years,Alone or together.I wonder about her,If she has a walkingPartner to share her lifeTo feel an autumn together.I guess I’ll…

  • On The Wonder of Age

    Today is the birthday of an elder, a daughter just lost her father, a young boy, playing in a culvert, watching handmade wooden ships float toward the sewer, no judgment in mind, simple childhood, with an elder keeping his welfare in mind.   We wonder sometime about the truth in aging, the wisdom found, the…

  • Finding My Way

    While I listen, I watch hands that will flail, a purpose, a manner, a passionate desire, to know, to understand, we reach for our grasp, our cathartic tour through life, some sojourn, a journey, for some a quiet discard, from whence we came. I wonder though about hands, how defined are we really, where do…

  • This Was That Place

    Where I began, a small boy sad eyes would venture forward inside cloud grey skies This was the way I began while all around me lives gave credence toward some manner by which to understand. This was when I began to wonder about where everyone else had gone, why the constant search, what could possibly…

  • Fires in Wood (Haiku)

    Where did you go when Standing right there together Suddenly just then ~ The rush of the sea Slapped our hearts against the wall Still I didn’t see ~ When last I did cry Felt so alone in misty breeze Still wondering why ~ Nature’s fire burning Our lives are in the balance Yet still…