What Crosses My Mind

  • Music To Cry By (Sade)

    She is just beautiful, sleek, smooth, black, like a midnight sun, rolling across the ocean’s tide, I watch her, eyes that move through me, when she looks, when she sees me glancing her way, I wonder sometimes, when standing before us all, if she can feel the passion, we all believe is moving through her…

  • Five Days, Five Photos – Day Three; On Diversity

    ( a third installment inspired by Dancing Echoes ) The Key a challenge to all of us around each other all the time during every moment of our lives we might be rather than the pose, the setup, the expectation, what if we all just recalled ourselves, instead of a reliance on being told to…

  • Sweet, Storied, Solemn

    I like to remember smiles yours is one a deep healthy laugh real, genuine, resonant. I see your eyes, know this as you cry tonight that there might be, we cannot predict, some solution that sounds far more wonderful than this reality. ~ A vision began things set the tone, created moments, steps, strides, special…

  • Only the Soft Melody

    Funny how a day can be shaped by keystrokes and a romantic tune. Reminds me gently of soft rains and mellow eyes, sharing time like forever. Hoping to always continue journeys I do relish the nostalgia of our walks, holding hands, caressing your forehead – reaching fingertips … Tracing your elegant persona, Manners while you…

  • Sweet Elegance

    To be the active notion of your flight One must believe that all their dreams are true. The morning sky that brilliant in its light Allows the heart a quest upon the clouds in blue We do decide our fears to be the plight Of all the damage in a world we skew. Now when…

  • Follow Me

    She was counting on an easy life including love When the guns went off Suddenly that cute guy over there didn’t matter As much as being able to breathe ~ When in an instance we might be cruising the avenue The slide begins without notice All we really remember then in a flash Are the…

  • When We Decide

    When we decide our world is safe enough to love and laugh, a bliss, an elegance. Our eyes believe in peace to know the rough designs that leave our lives and dreams to chance. ~ Beside a cool sweet stream we feel alive when we decide our world is safe enough, To sit upon a…

  • Hold Your Children Close

    We remember that moment The dials turn so slowly That capture forever our time In your arms In my arms Tears that suggest Truly a miracle has occurred ~ I remember the eyes Looking at me in a wonder Asking to be held Yet, not knowing why Just pleading innocence A natural Grace of need…

  • Wide Awake Slumber

    Here in the now The world rotates Cyclical As we were told in primary Science Suddenly exacting Life’s gravity compels Our mind to recognize We are physically together Electronic conduits Now offer symbiosis Yet high frequencies ~ – Data Jargon Lingo Slang Slurs – ~ Racist, piggish, ugly, name-calling Entitlements interfere With waves of gracious…

  • Walks Nostalgic

    And I was walking up a hill Feeling the rocks crack under me As each step suggested will That certain desire to keep ~ Climbing with uncertain fears Wishing there might be a rise In the morning; spirit of nature’s Beauty; her grace might now advise ~ My frame of mind is patterned By a…