What Crosses My Mind

  • I Stood Alone

    Faced with the truth I sighed, A nation is lost in rhetoric. Words now are turning lethal While everyone’s focus is small. I stood alone outside in the cold, My imagination lost in despair. I could wonder out loud if I wish, Though little would it matter. A machine is gripping our lives, A mechanical…

  • I Turned Off The News

      Yesterday, I made a conscious decision to turn off the news. Having watched the now ‘idle’ banter of prognosticators and candidates for the last year, the outcome in hand, I wasn’t excited about hearing any theory, any ‘told you so’ antics, or any patronage from the winning side of an ugly defeat. I told…

  • When Childhood Seemed Innocent

    We would play, for hours in May, anticipating the summer day, those opportunities ahead that contained no worries, no stress, no school remained.   I remember our time spent on the court the roundball, and later building a fort we camped in the woods across the fields, we lived for all the beauty that nature…

  • Heads Explode

    When the summer air dries the mind, while the human condition  becomes designed, to employ an ideal, to suggest we steal each other’s value for the benefit of our own each mannerism, gesture from where found unknown. We only benefit by the knowledge of truth as that reality slides we belong long in the tooth.…