What Crosses My Mind

  • In Nature

    Today we will travel miles to reach a peace, a settling of soils enriching Nature’s quiet beauty. We will haul our materials in a trek inside Her monastery while there we will think only of the sounds and sights of the forest. There is a spectacular symbolism with asking the environment to allow us to…

  • Music, Please! (Random Notes)

    I remember There were days like these Soft mornings, just waking Eyes adjusting The steady fog of reality Waiting in the silence Laying in bed only to begin wondering again What shall I do Who might I become How could I even begin The eyes have certainly stepped in ~ …and then the music began…

  • A Boy’s Childhood

    I want to remember my childhood There were good things The smiles that my mom provided ~ Dancing a jig that I’d made up Listening to the Beatles holding my hand Playing the piano and sight reading ~ Until years later I couldn’t do that anymore Something got in the way My fingertips in place,…

  • Door Knockers (A Rewrite)

    I’m a non-white, illegal immigrant, African-American, Jewish Orthodox, Buddhist (Door slams) Indian, Slavic, Islamic, Mexican-American, (Bolts clasped [from the inside]) Jehov … #nameyourprejudice (Soft whispers trail off into the quiet afternoon) … ~ Behind closed doors Our world is safe now As long as what we fear Stays outside in the general public’s eye ~…

  • Knock, Knock

    I’m a non-white, illegal immigrant, African-American, Jewish Orthodox, Buddhist (Door slams) Indian, Slavic, Islamic, Mexican-American, (Bolts clasped [from the inside]) Jehov … #nameyourprejudice (Soft whispers trail off into the quiet afternoon) … ~ Behind closed doors Our world is safe now As long as what we fear Stays outside in the general public’s eye ~…