What Crosses My Mind

  • The Aftermath

    I visited, again, it was different this time around the waves spoke loud, the temperatures mild, I wondered about the last time, how difficult it might be to recreate what no longer exists. I sat and watched the sunrise, noticed it flicker across the water, enveloping the trees. I couldn’t imagine a prettier site, than…

  • Watching the Waves

    I watched the waves rolling in today like kneading bread each wave on top of another landing on the shoreline. The sun was rising in the east filtering through clouds and the Apostle Islands. There was something so gentle and serene in the air. I couldn’t help feel at peace. Watching Lake Superior and it’s…

  • Sunrise On The Lake

    I watched the waves motion tease the shoreline the sunlight draping all the trees nearby. I looked across the lake, wonder in line, a body of water before my eyes. The horizon will wander miles away in a mirage of real or illusion The sky is clear with reflection today to accentuate current emotion. How…

  • God’s Grace

    Her waters calm, is a pleasant visit wonder the mystique below the surface. Gentle waves create comfort I admit serenity’s magical journey face. Sitting quiet in the chill arctic air letting my mind travel a solemn way. Only now such peace is captured, a fair mystery pouring a water today. Cloud cover breaks as sunlight…

  • A Week in the Wood and a Lake

    I spent the week in one of my favorite places, along the shores of Lake Superior. I camped in the Temperance river, and fished, hiked, and took a bike ride. But the most telling moments of the week were reaching the summit of Eagle Mountain, and sitting on a rock next to the shoreline watching…

  • The Story of Mak (or Man’s Best Friend)

    The year 2020 started off with a bang for me. I was suddenly about to be found swirling in a myriad of life choices, decisions, adjustments and COVID 19. To begin the year, my marriage of 30 years had fallen apart, and I was forced to look at myself in the mirror and take responsibility…

  • Sweet Albatross

    would that we might seek refuge in a distance be aware of our surroundings I will guide you by wing sweeping upon distant perils and swallows trust me for it is my guidance would you chance in the grips of Nature’s siege upon a human whose quiet fallibility reveals itself in a distant memory.

  • Lines

    Glance across great body of water, See a family of fowl travel near Look to notice crystal waves appear The magic of earth is all the matter   Birds sing in the hidden pine of morning A quiet reminder that love is in the air, Symbolic in its historic grasp of where Our lives begin…

  • Whisper My Name

    To be heard By her magic symphony I am the audience She the mystery   Oh, to know the many Value of this body of mystique The waves lapping shoreline Only to be heard.   I wonder the soul She keeps in quiet harmony, The many lives, the sea men Leaving wives and children home…

  • The Water’s Edge

    I’ve often stood here, Seeing the glass, Mystique Is nature’s remedy   A soft whispering cacophony Waves sing forever, In the trees they are listening, Chanting, Living in sweet serenity   Oh to know the mystery What lies ahead Is in the arms of a cradled soul So distant yet near We are all inside…