What Crosses My Mind

  • In My Comfort Zone

    It is where I am every day, my comfort zone, I give a glimpse into the world I see, every hour of my day, until the sun does set, hues change, sky becomes a darkness outside I cannot see as readily.   Until the morning comes, then in rain or sunshine, the view the same,…

  • Check Your Need

    Check your nails, primp your hair, fix your tie, pull that food out of your teeth, people die ~ Meet the boss, play the silly fool, smile to your strangers walking by, be sure we all can see your eyes, people die ~ plan your life, hug your animal frolic in the springtime air, plant…

  • Listening to the News

    I’m feeling agitation, listening to mouthpieces slam each other, slam the office, slam the American people, Ignorance, forces themselves to believe in rhetoric, ‘we will never be great again’ oh my, 6th grade Civics again. ~ ‘lead from behind’ Hah! – I won’t go there, but they might, probably do. ~ Remember when we were told…

  • Her Eyes

    She sits with cold reasoning trying to believe knowing everyone around her disagrees decides to illicit a remark cements her current posture. If I look across the room I can see she is different, her burqa wraps her fears inside eyes with tears imagine fear. Yet this is all we have, the only part of…

  • Haven’t Heard

    I listened only long enough to fear, the easiest emotion, that moment when suddenly confusion, our lives, becomes less about being in control, far more about wanting to run away. I want that, more than anything else in the world, I don’t want to be there when it happens. I don’t desire definition. Whether we…

  • “The World is Watching”

    Tradition suggests acknowledge ourselves In scheme, our spiritual karma wanes, Like to believe that humanity delves Where love in peace speaks hopeful gains. ~ Wild abandon ills principled decline In our children’s eyes we extinguish fire, That reckoning once spoke roses and whine Today, private anguish will less inspire. ~ Young minds of tomorrow whose direction…

  • An Upsetting Time

    Stunned, a brief awareness, then disbelief, then horrific, ugly, insane realization. My people, your people, we people, all of us trying to breathe. We are told to ‘look the other way’ in a manner of speaking only because we still have compassion. We are asked to pass judgment upon soul driven desire across the divide…

  • The Next Day (Why Paris?)

    When sun arose to widen sleepy eyelid A calm begun soon turned memory horrific We wake shadowed in darkness, a slow embrace Shattered dreams begun inside stranger despair. The news however distorted cannot rid Crying heart, confused eyes, reality’s prolific Mastery of human nature’s fallible race. Once thrive her eyes this morning lacking air. No…

  • Hearts Will Cry

    Lives are always lost, that’s nothing new, we just go on again, face a new day, let the sunlight brighten our lovely sunroom. Just don’t turn on the news, stay away from the internet, water your flowers, hold court with your pets, read a newspaper … wait, only the comics today. Stay away from the…

  • Yesterday’s Lives

    Once, I recall a crisp morning listening to the radio describe Bobby Kennedy’s iron lung By the end of the day I was listening to music again. Yesterday, and probably later on today lives will be lost at the hands of war all of which are names we don’t know. ~ Yet, in the blogs…