What Crosses My Mind

  • Indescribable Love

    When everything else is put aside, the need to have is forgotten, the eye on the prize becomes a secondary notion, for the forefront becomes our living breathing soul ~ she was born into our world suddenly vulnerable in need of touch, we did reach out I held my little girl and everything around me…

  • Vantage Points

    We all hope to understand truths while acknowledging secrets we might look inside the world of time to find an artifact, a memory, -a childhood rite of passage- reunion, delight, gathering, loss, solace in all of our travels somewhere it is where we call home ~ This too will always remain strong in mind when…

  • In My Country

    We have this tradition in place whereby our satisfaction is the chase; is built around certain achievement – a lifestyle some acclaim entitlement. ~ When I was a young man we gathered lives, in a single room was the plan celebrating  our tribes. Well I was told the story any- way to appease my gentle…

  • My Moon is Wonder

    I noticed as the sky erupted with sole beauty mystique always at hand, nearby holding court wide in stride we recognize our humanity aims high, always illuminations to report. ~ I do recall as a child in my quiet obstinacy often a long stare, in wonder of a still glance until one day a friend…

  • Anxiety’s Breeze

    Feel it, when a wave spooks a present state of mind, unexpected, often uninvited, yet enough resilience to freeze a moment. We walk like this when we wish to show a safer side, a confident bit of posturing. We smile when the need does arise; it surely does speak to our manner. We question everything…

  • Old Tapes

    We are reminded often we are fallible we are told a frequent reckoning, by the scant of an eye, the misread unspoken truth a quiet mood all display the heritage of our new understanding. Yet that scrutiny part of our lives, the moment we become real, those indecisive perils, the frightened impulsivity followed by a…

  • I Tried

    I tried to understand, while waves of despair enveloped my mind, tossing me, slapping me, a ruthless affair. ~ My hands were locked inside a pattern everyone else excluded me from knowledge, that reality of pain. ~ When on occasion, a happier time, we could reflect upon the insanity … well such is rare. ~…

  • Whisper Autumn

    While skies begin a stretch of cooler winds body seeming to recognize limits each stepping stone, virtual time rescinds calculate further storm than time admits. ~ A child witness color – aging leaves headstrong emotions tacked upon crackles like a midnight fire sparks ember heaves slow to respond yet beauty sheds shackles. ~ Perhaps a…

  • A Rising Fire

    There’s a frightening reality exists around our lives we’d like to believe it isn’t the panic our mind derives. ~ Yet, how else can we explain the mounting tension, the averted eyes, the tarnished world we mention. ~ Would that it mattered our own lives hang in the balance that we imagine we might never…

  • A Good Night Rant

    I wonder many hours at daybreak I begin until my eyes close again I decide upon the moment. ~ I wander in my mind hours at a time whether the right thing is nearby or a fantasy of mine. ~ I wonder about interactions, people’s dispositions the manner by which talk permeates the lives of…